A Heart for a Heart Chapter 09
died, just so that he would know no peace in death!
“When he cried out in pain-when he reached out to you-how did you manage to hold back, instead of holding him in your arms?! How did you manage to watch so nonchalantly as he died in a pool of his own blood?!
“James Frost! You’re less than scum! The one thing I regret the most is marrying you!”
James watched as I wobbled, almost falling from my emotions, and reached out before he knew it.
He wanted to hold me, but I pushed him, sending him stumbling.
“See for yourself,” I told him, wiping my tears and pointing at the name inscribed on the gravestone. “I changed Stan’s name-he will always be Stan Scott from now on. I’m going to divorce you, because you have no business being Stan’s father! He will only be a son to me!”
Pain showed in James’ eyes. “I know you and Stan won’t forgive me whatever I say or do, and I admit that I have made a mistake and will suffer the consequences for that.
“I will agree to the divorce, but not now. Just give me a few days to do one last thing, for you and for Stan. Whether you believe me or not, I won’t disappoint you again.”
He then bowed before Stan’s gravestone, his tears falling and moistening the soil beneath.
And with that, he straightened himself and turned to leave.
He suddenly stopped some distance away, turning again to look at me.
“Wanda… It started with a lie, but in time, even I couldn’t lie to myself.
“But when I almost decided I couldn’t sacrifice Stan and didn’t want to see you sad, Nathan’s heart condition was getting worse, and Sue pestered me every day if I was abandoning them after I have you.
“It was just one bad decision when I chose to plan the accident and the surgery, to fulfill the promise I made to Sue and Nathan all those years ago.
“I was devastated when I watched Stan die, so much so that I couldn’t say a word, let alone move.
“I did all I could to keep up a cold reaction, because I know I would cry otherwise. I had to keep telling myself it was a part of the plan, that Stan was born so that Nathan can have a heart.
“But I cried anyway. When they transplanted Nathan’s heart, I locked myself in the men’s room the whole time, smoking and unable to stop my tears. Even Sue never managed to find me.
“Also, the title of Mrs. Frost wasn’t meant to be compensation… Because for me, you’re the only one who can be my wife.
“I now see Sue for what she truly is, but it’s too little, too late.
“I’ve fallen in love with you before I knew it, Wanda, even if telling you now is pointless.”
As he finished, I remembered that meteor shower that he had spent millions making for me.
I crossed my fingers, making a wish as the shooting star left a fiery trail to the night sky.
I wished that our family would always be together and love one another.
But in the end, the meteor shower was fake, so there was no way that wish could have come true.
During the second court session, things remained gloomy as I had no definitive evidence that Sue was the mastermind, only for James to confess everything.
When both Sue and James were sentenced on the spot, Sue was screaming hysterically as she tried to reach James, but the bailiffs held her back.
“Have you lost your mind?!” she shrieked. “What are you even talking about?! Why would you say those things?! No one would have known, aside from me and you!
“You betrayed me! How dare you! You kept saying you loved me, that everything you do is for me and for Nathan! Now that there’s trouble, you’re just going to make me take the fall?! How could you bear to see me die when you
love me?!
“It’s all lies… You were lying to me for years!
“You can’t do this to me… Have you forgotten our Nathan? He’s still a child-he can’t live without a mother…”
However, seeing James watch her freak out without an ounce of emotion in his eyes, she finally bellowed, “You screwed me over, James Frost! You will die for this!”
Nonetheless, both James and Sue were sentenced to death for murder and illegal organ transplant.
And with the public outcry that followed, the Frost family soon disappeared entirely from the public eye.
