After Divorce, My General Husband Chasing Me Back

Love My Ex-Wife 9

Chapter 9 He Cared for Me

Claire's back stiffened as she clenched her fists, her gaze fixed on the torture device lying on the floor. Her face turned pale as memories of blood and fear surged back into her mind. Her stomach churned, and she covered her mouth, retching uncontrollably.

Already feverish, with nothing but a cup of instant noodles from the night before, she hadn't eaten anything else since.

With nothing substantial to vomit, all that came up was the acidic bile from her stomach.

After she finished, her stomach cramped painfully, leaving her curled up on the ground, trembling as she reached out for the torture device. Frederick had been watching her, expressionless, the entire

time.

It wasn't until Claire started convulsing that he subconsciously frowned and stepped down on the device.

He crouched down beside her. "Claire, if you die, who will protect Caroline?"

Claire's hand froze on the device. She looked up at Frederick, and suddenly, she laughed, a bitter laugh that brought tears to

Chapter 9 He Cared for Me

her eyes.

She thought, "For a split second, when he crouched down, I foolishly imagined that he cared for me.

It turns out when I love someone for too long, it becomes ingrained in my very bones, uncontrollable."

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Claire could only watch helplessly as the servant who had tried to help her had her legs brutally broken

didn't even have the strength to shout,

the bright red blood

was lie on the

over, Frederick

sure she's treated well. If anything happens to

showing no reaction at all. Her mind was filled with the image of

words didn't stir any emotion in

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reason Frederick was doing this was to ensure she would be

ward, his mind replaying the scene of Claire reaching for the torture device, willing to endure the

servant kneel for an entire day over a broken cup, is now willing to

only mean one thing. She is

on an act."

eyes darkened. Without any further hesitation, he turned and

just one bottle of antibiotics. Once her fever

a little money left, the amount she had stashed away in her

spend when she was discharged from the hospital, but Claire

Prescott family would have stirred up. At the very least, Harrison wouldn't have let it slide."

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supermarket across the street and thought of the empty basement

she could just buy a bottle of water and use that for now. The cup could wait. A water bottle could double as a cup for brushing her teeth. Slippers and other

for a bed, she couldn't afford one, so she bought two thick sleeping bags instead. That way, she could solve both the bed and