The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 362 A Murder (Part One)

Simon frowned, but he finally gave in. "If you really want to know, then I will tell you."

He slowly took another sip of the spareribs soup. "When I was with you that year, I rarely visited our home with my then wife. However, when she was about to give birth to Aron, I went to see her." Wendy remembered that time. She was also pregnant. Though she tried to keep him from leaving, not allowing him go out, he still sneaked out into the night when she fell asleep.

"Don't look at me that way." Simon then said, "No matter what, I was still the baby's father. Even if I didn't care about her, it's my responsibility to care for the baby."

Wendy just stared at her husband without saying anything.

Simon continued, "The doctor told me that she was in very bad shape. It could be because of something she may have eaten. She lacked the strength to give birth to the baby. The doctor also said, if she kept eating whatever it was that was causing her to weaken, she might miscarry the baby."

"However, I didn't think too much of it that night. I just thought that her death was caused by the difficulty of giving birth which she wasn't able to survive. When you moved into this house, I once heard you chatting with the maid, who used to take care of her. You gave her a large amount of money, letting her leave and never come back. Is that true?" Simon said it with hatred.

"You got it." She gave him a creepy smile. "Why don't you reveal another of my secrets? Since you have found out that it was me who murdered her. Why did you still marry me?"

Simon smiled bitterly. She was right. If he had acted accordingly after he discovered her secret, then they wouldn't be in such big trouble at present.

"At that time, I loved you so much. And I knew that your aim was to be with me. To be honest, it wasn't such a bad thing for me that Aron's mother died. The company was handed to me. That was why I didn't seek justice for her death."

Simon sneered, "Actually, that maid came back many times, asking for more money. Guess what? I paid her. Without you knowing."

"What are you talking about?" Wendy's eyes widened with surprise. She had paid so much money to that maid, enough for her to enjoy the rest of her life without having to work as a maid ever again. Never did she imagine that, the maid repeatedly came back and greedily asked for more money. It made her clench her fists in anger.

What made it worse was that Simon helped her. No wonder he found out the truth.

"Now you know everything. Hurry up and sign it."

Simon added, "I assure you, once you sign it, this horrible thing that you did will remain a secret, especially from my son." "I'm afraid I can't sign it."

Wendy raised her head, with a sinister smile. Simon realized what had happened. He had quickly lost strength to rebuke her. "You... you poisoned me?"

Simon immediately realized what she had done. She poisoned Aron's mother and treat her own daughter badly. Of course, she would do anything for her survival, without any consideration for morality or the simple basics of right and wrong.

"You're clever." Wendy stood up. Only she knew that the poison she put in the soup could make a person lose strength, and then die slowly and painfully.

"Wendy! You are the devil!" Simon cried out. "Is it not enough for you to kill her?! You have to kill me too? Sooner or later your evil deeds will catch up with you!"

"Huh?" Wendy laughed. "If I was afraid of that, How could I have had the guts to achieve this?"

"Let me tell you. Not only you two, but Bowen. I murdered Bowen too." This shameless woman hovered over her dying husband and squeezed a sinister smile on him. "You..." Simon stared at her, frightened at what she would do next. He didn't know why she poisoned Bowen as well. The poor guy didn't do anything wrong to her.

"You are surprised, right?" Wendy jeered, "I can tell you everything, since you won't come out of this house alive anyway."

What Wendy didn't know was that Simon had dialed Aron's number. When the phone rang, Aron didn't want to answer it. However, it kept ringing and the noise irritated him. Finally, he answered the telephone. It was the rude voice of Wendy talking in the distance that he heard. He was about to say something, but decided to stay quiet and listen some more.

"When we were still together as a couple, his father, Arthur, did not give his blessing to our marriage. I could feel that no one in that damn family liked me. Then I gave birth to Autumn. We were running out of money and life was starting to get difficult especially with our new baby. But Bowen... Oh, poor but stupid and proud Bowen." She paused, then continued, "He was too proud and unwilling to go back to his family to make amends. I threatened to break up with him but he didn't care. I was not ready to live a life of poverty with him so I had to get rid of him. People think that he died from depression, but the truth is that... he was poisoned to death... by me."

Aron couldn't believe what he just heard. He held the phone to his ear with eyes wide open and his heart beating fast. He never thought that Wendy spoke out the truth like that. He immediately pressed the record button, waiting for her to say more.

"Then let's talk about Aron's mother..."

Wendy excitedly paced around the room, complacent that the dying old man in front of her can do nothing about it.

"When I was with you, I visited her once, in an effort to persuade her to leave you. But of course, we all know that she didn't agree. Instead, she told me that she would divorce you, but she would keep the house, the cars, your company, everything! And nothing for me! Could you believe it?" she screamed in Simon's face. "Was I insane to let her have it all? What about me? Stupid bitch had to die!" Wendy's laughter was so demonic on the phone that Aron tightened his fists. This was the first time he knew that his mother's death was her doing.

"As to you, my dear..." Wendy turned back to look at Simon, smiling.

Simon's senses have gone fuzzy, but he still tried to sit straight, talking back to Wendy, "You vicious woman! Even if you kill me, never will you get my fortune. All of it will be rightfully given to my son. All of it! So you can stop dreaming my dear. Because it is never, ever going to happen!" He forced it out with all his remaining strength.

Upon hearing this, Wendy strode to him, grabbed his neck with both hands and tried to strangle him, "That's why I have to poison you, my dear husband!!! I did this because of you, you pathetic son of a bitch! I did all of this to be with you! And you still decided to divorce me?!"

"Because of me? How deluded are you! Everything you do is only for your own benefit."

Simon laughed with both amusement and sadness. "Wendy, you are a greedy and selfish woman. All the things you have done were only to get yourself a better life. Just for you! Not for your family, not for you daughters, not for anyone! Stop regarding yourself as a selfless woman. You are nowhere near being selfless!"