Chapter 70

Valerie's words made me speechless. Perhaps she'd never understand just how I got through these few years. She didn't know just how much my parents' deaths hurt me. She didn't know how much it hurt to lose our child. Besides, she would never know just how painful it was to see her fooling around with other guys in our own room. "Jeffrey! Don't forget that you've got cancer. If you told them about that, do you think they'd still care about you?" I laughed instead of getting mad. "What are you telling me that for, Valerie? Don't you think you're being childish now? What else can you do except make threats?" "Jeffrey! What did you say? Childish? I think you're really insane. I'm warning you. Know your place! If we get a divorce, no one will care about you!" Ridiculous! Even without a divorce, people didn't care about me. "What are you getting at here? You want me to be obedient and not bring up the divorce?" "Of course! You should just stay still and recover. I call the shots, not