My husband chose to save his junior female classmate

chapter 1

My compromise was met with nothing but Ben Nicholas's cold mockery.

"Harriet Steele, stop playing the victim. You know perfectly well whether your injuries are serious or not!"

As soon as he said that, he grabbed me by the collar and flung me to the floor. He completely ignored that the knife was still lodged in my abdomen.

Feeling the wound tear further, I cried out in pain. Warm blood poured down, soaking through my clothes and taking away the tiny life inside me.

Meanwhile, he gently picked up his junior, Marina Gunter, and placed her on the hospital bed.

"Don't be scared, Marina. I'm here. You're going to be okay."

There was only a shallow cut on her arm, yet she was sobbing as if her heart was breaking.

"Ben, it hurts so bad. What if I can't hold a scalpel anymore because a nerve might be damaged?"

Ben's face twisted with heartbreak. "You silly girl. If that ever happens, I'll take care of you. I swear, I'll make whoever hurt you pay."

The deputy director, Jake Pratt, stood nearby.

He frowned and said, "Dr. Nicholas, Mrs. Nicholas is still carrying your child. The stab wound is quite deep. If we don't save her now, you might lose both her and the baby."

Ben cast a disgusted glance at me.

"She's just faking it. She must have stuffed cotton and blood bags under her clothes. She's been scheming with that attacker to put on a show to deceive me. How could I possibly fall for it?"

The doctors around us stared in shock. None of them could believe those words came from the mouth of a hospital directorthe man who had been my husband for seven years.

Ben sneered and kicked me in the stomach twice.

"Harriet, you're quite cunning, aren't you? You even bribed the doctors in my hospital. Women from the impoverished countryside are indeed ruthless. You'd stoop this low just to win my affection. I never should've listened to Grandma and married you."

Hearing this, I instinctively looked toward Marina on the hospital bed.

Sure enough, I caught the smug glint in her eyes.

Earlier, when the attacker had lunged at us with the knife, she whispered, "Harriet, do you dare to make a bet? Ben only cares about me. Even if you die in front of him, he won't waver."

Ben clearly believed every word she said.