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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had her legs brutally broken and was thrown out

didn't even have the strength to shout, let alone

pure white snow and the bright

was lie on the ground,

Frederick

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

all. Her mind was filled with the image of the servant

Frederick's words didn't stir any

He

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doing this was to ensure she would be there to shield

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

thought, "Claire, who once made a servant kneel for an entire day over a broken cup,

change could only mean one thing.

on an act."

Without any further hesitation, he turned and

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

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

grandmother offered her some money to spend when she was discharged from

if I accepted the money, who knows what kind of trouble the Prescott family would have stirred up. At the very least, Harrison wouldn't have let

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leaving the hospital, she saw a supermarket across the street and thought of

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

bags instead. That way, she could solve both