Surviving Heartbreak novel

---- Chapter 13 That night, Jacob drank himself into a stupor before stumbling home. That was when he noticed a feeble and slender figure busying away in the kitchen via the closed transparent door. Delight washed over him instantly as he stumbled over to pull the woman into his arms. He choked out, " Penny, you're finally home! I knew it! I knew that you were still in love with me! That's why you won't abandon me!" "Jacob, it's me." Disappointed , Jacob released Rebecca in an instant.

He replied coldly , "This isn't where you should be. You should go home and rest." "Jacob, you haven't spent time with me for a week. Are you really going to chase me away right after we've met up?" Rebecca looked sad. "I wasn't able to stomach anything because of my severe morning sickness, so I just wanted to spend some time with you " But Jacob's eyes remained closed. He refused to say anything. "Jacob , I've prepared some hangover soup for you.

You should have some." ---- "No way." "Jacob, you must be having an intense headache, right? Would you like a massage?" "Nope." Jacob's cold attitude toward Rebecca pissed her off to the point that her body was already shaking from anger. Still, she placed a bowl of hangover soup next tohim. "Jacob, Ms. Hall leaving you is a good thing. After all, you do plan on bringing up your divorce with her as soon as I'm done giving birth, don't you?" she coaxed softly.

Jacob was instantly displeased upon hearing Rebecca's voice. "I told you before to address Penny as Mrs. Thornton. Have you forgotten about that?" "No, I haven't. But the thing is, we're already married ..'' Rebecca began sobbing. "I'm even pregnant with your child, you know. I can't believe you got mad at me because of Penelope. Does this mean you've developed feelings for her? Are you planning on abandoning me and my unborn child? "Fine!

I'll leave right now so that Penelope can remain the lady of the house!" Rebecca then bolted out of the mansion in tears. Surprisingly enough, Jacob didn't follow her just to ---- appease her. She was overcome by a mixture of shock, anger, and hatred. Upon swiping across her phone's screen, she read the latest text sent by another sender. "Mr. Peter Thornton's men are the ones who have taken Penelope away.

They seemed to have signed some sort of a secret agreement which states that Penelope is to never return to Clairvon ever again." With a hand placed on her belly, Rebecca couldn't help but chuckle smugly in return. "This pregnancy is definitely worth it. Even Mr. Thornton, who hates my guts, is willing to get rid of all obstacles standing in my way. "That hag, Penelope , has already left Clairvon with her tail between her legs.

From now on, no one in this world will steal Jacob from me ever again!" Then, Rebecca turned to look at Jacob, who was still drinking his sorrows away in the mansion. A victorious smirk was already on her lips. She knew very well that Jacob didn't love Penelope at all. He was just finding it difficult to adjust to Penelope's absence. That was all. It'd take him at most a week to completely forget about Penelope. Once that happened , Rebecca would become the actual Mrs. Thornton.

---- Jacob was suffering from an extremely bad headache at the moment. No matter how much he tossed and turned in bed, he could not fall asleep. Out of habit, he reached out to hug the woman sleeping next to him, only to realize that the spot next to him was empty. Penelope's absence made the atmosphere in the bedroom awfully suffocating. Soon, Jacob found it difficult to breathe. He began gasping for air. After that, he tried taking some sleeping pills to aid him with his sleep.

As he drifted in and out of consciousness, he seemed to have returned to the darkest times of his life, where he was forced to stay in the psychiatric hospital. Jacob jolted awake with a shriek before bolting out of the mansion. He looked around fervently while hollering , "Penny, where are you? They're about to force more drugs down my throat!" The poor man spent a long time wandering down the dim streets, looking for his wayward wife.

Suddenly, he noticed a young couple seated at a table in Penelope's favorite barbecue restaurant. The young woman in white was obviously Penelope!