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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only watch helplessly as the servant who had tried to help her had her legs brutally broken and was thrown out of the villa. She desperately wanted to stop

even have the strength to shout, let

white snow and the bright red

lie on the ground, silently shedding

over, Frederick took Claire to the

treated well. If anything

a soulless shell, showing no reaction at all. Her mind was filled with the

words didn't stir any

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doing this was

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

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

could only mean

on an act."

darkened. Without any further hesitation, he turned and

one bottle of antibiotics. Once her

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

some money to spend when she was discharged from the hospital, but

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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and thought of

As for a water cup, 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.

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

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