My Husband’s Double Love for Me and My Best Friend
Chapter 04
Everyone present froze.
I alone felt nothing. A hollow emptiness where the shock should have been.
Mrs. Montgomery walked over, took my hand, and asked quietly:
“Is what he said true, she said.”
I nodded.
The farce came to an abrupt end.
Chloe moved into the Montgomery estate without a hitch. An army of servants attended to her every whim. She was
living, unmistakably, as the lady of the house.
Mrs. Montgomery said: “Once the baby is born, you can raise it, she said. I’ll have that woman sent away immediately-
she’ll never threaten your position!”
I pulled my hand away, said casually:
“No, Mother, I said. Let her stay. Sebastian would die without her.”
Mrs. Montgomery looked at me with guilt and sympathy.
But I truly didn’t care anymore.
As I walked out of the study. I came face to face with Sebastian, who’d been eavesdropping against the wall.
For the first time in ages, he smiled and ruffled my hair.
“You finally act like a Montgomery wife should, he said,”
The divorce papers,” he said, leaning closer, “they’re just to keep her calm. A temporary measure. This is your home.
Your title. When the baby comes, we’ll put all this behind us and build a proper life.”
I remained calm and said nothing.
A message popped up on my phone: “Your flight is booked for three days from now. All divorce papers are finalized
Sebastian must have glimpsed a few words, his eyes filling with suspicion. He grabbed my wrist, questioning sharply
“Where are you going with that plane ticket, he asked.”
I said calmly:
“Business trip. I replied. I never finished the work from last time.”
Sebastian calmed down, smiling softly:
“When you get back, I’ll take you to Aspen to see the snow, he said. It should be snowing soon.”
Aspen. He’d promised it every year since I was twenty. A promise that lingered until my twenty-eighth birthday. He
remembered. He just never bothered to make it real.
But somehow, he fulfilled every one of Chloe’s wishes ahead of time.
Love and indifference were always this obvious.
The day of my departure drew near.
Yet Chloe and I were kidnapped at the same time.
It was a live broadcast across LA. The kidnappers taunted Sebastian publicly, demanding thirty million dollars for their
release-but he could only save one.
Everyone laughed at the kidnappers for being foolish. Of course Sebastian would save his wife.
But the truth was the exact opposite.
Sebastian came alone. He stood on the deck of the rusted cargo freighter, a duffel bag of cash at his feet, a gun held
loosely in his hand.
“Mr. Montgomery, what courage, one kidnapper sneered. You’d rather give up your fortune to save your lover!”
The whole city whispers about you and your wife’s… shadow,” another voice chimed in, cruel amusement evident. “So
let’s make it official. Choose.”
Sebastian glanced at me, hesitating for a moment.
“Save her, he said.”
Yes, just as I’d expected-he chose Chloe.
A strange, detached part of me observed the scene. I thought I felt nothing for him. So why this phantom pain, this dull
echo of a heartbreak I was sure had already died?
He threw the money to the kidnappers, lifted Chloe into his arms, and when he looked at me, he said:
“Lena, some acts get old after a while, he said.”
“You hired these men to put on a show, didn’t you, he accused. Just to make me abandon Chloe and choose you How
boring.”
With that, he left without looking back.
I screamed at the top of my lungs: “I didn’t! Sebastian, save me! They’re real kidnappers!”
I watched his receding figure. The boy I’d once loved so deeply died completely in that moment
When we were seven, we’d been reckless and kidnapped by strangers. Sebastian had been covered in bruises from
beatings, yet he’d still shared his bun with me.
Later, when I was fading in and out of consciousness, he carried me on his back, stumbling through the dark. His voice, a
desperate chant in my ear: “Stay awake, Lena. I’ve got you. I’ll always protect you. I promise.”
Sebastian, you broke your promise.
The kidnappers looked at me, their eyes filled with sympathy.
“Just dump her.” one of them said, his voice bored. “The husband’s paid. He got what he wanted. Let’s get out of here.”
“Huh? Boss, she’s the heiress to the Carter fortune!”
“We were gonna extort another big payout, another sighed. But if her husband doesn’t want her, who else is gonna save
her?”
They yanked me up, then threw me over the railing into the open sea.
In that moment, I smiled in relief.
“Goodbye forever, Sebastian.”
An explosion suddenly tore through the sea.
Sebastian’s assistant shouted: “Mr. Montgomery, it’s Mrs. Montgomery! They threw her overboard and set off a bomb!”
Sebastian, who had been striding toward the waiting car, stopped dead.