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

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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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tried to help her had her legs brutally broken and was thrown out of the villa.

she didn't even have the

snow and the bright red blood formed a

was lie on

Frederick took Claire to

she's treated well. If anything happens to her, I'll hold

all. Her mind was filled with

didn't

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reason Frederick was doing this

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

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

only mean one thing. She

on an act."

eyes darkened. Without any further

received just one bottle of antibiotics. Once her fever subsided, she hurried back

a little money left, the amount she had stashed away in her wallet before going to

spend when she was discharged from the hospital,

money, who knows what kind of trouble the Prescott family would have stirred up. At the very least, Harrison wouldn't have let it slide." So, before this small

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a supermarket across the street and thought of the empty basement at the villa. She

and use that for now. The cup could wait. A water bottle could double as a

two thick sleeping bags instead. That way, she could solve both the bed and quilt issues

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