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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legs brutally broken and

she didn't even have the strength

white snow and the bright red

she could do was lie on the ground,

all over, Frederick

treated well. If anything happens to her,

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

hearing Frederick's words didn't stir any

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was doing this was to ensure she would

through the glass of the ward, his mind replaying the scene of Claire reaching for the torture

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

a drastic change could only mean one thing.

on an act."

eyes darkened. Without any further hesitation,

just one bottle of antibiotics. Once her fever subsided,

she had stashed away in her

some money to spend when she was

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

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across the street and thought of the empty basement at the villa.

were necessary. 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. Slippers and other non-essential

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

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