Love My Ex-Wife 37

After Divorce, My General Husband Chasin...

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On the other side, Claire lay in a coma, her dreams awash with a chaotic sea of bright red.

She saw herself back in that hellish prison, stripped bare by those vicious women. Their cruel laughter echoed as they stomped on her and humiliated her beyond measure. "Ah!"

She jolted awake with a scream. Blinking rapidly, she realized she was in a hospital, not in that dreadful prison.

Her mind whirled in confusion. Why was she in the hospital?

She vividly recalled the terror of the previous night when she was unwillingly dragged to that pervert Jacob, who then ushered her into that place of dread...

She tried to piece together the fragments of her scattered memory when the familiar voice of Frederick sliced through her fog.

"Are you awake?"

Claire could hardly trust her ears. Her head snapped towards the tall figure by the floor-to-ceiling window. There was stood Frederick. Chapter 37 Truly Heartbroken

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Last night flashed in her mind. The blood-red tools on Jacob's walls had triggered her panic, shoving her back into the abyss of her schizophrenia.

It felt as though every fiber of her being was still pulsating with the intense pain that had racked her body, yet inexplicably, she found herself unable to muster any resistance.

She yearned to resist, to thrash about with wild abandon, but her body remained motionless as if paralyzed. The four years she spent in prison must have cast a long, dark shadow over her, leaving her spirit shackled even when her limbs were free. Beyond that, she could fathom no other explanation for her inertia.

She gazed at Frederick, who stood silhouetted against the French window, and her heart skipped, nearly ceasing to beat in her chest.

One thought burned brightly. Frederick had saved her.

Otherwise, he would not be present. Despite the certainty that settled in her heart, a part of her still refused to believe it.

Could Frederick, who haunted her nightmares, truly be her savior?

"Was it you..."

trembled,

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moment, her heart fluttered with a cocktail of nerves, fear, and an overwhelming

"Yes, I saved you."

the question teetering on her lips, Frederick provided an

Claire was left speechless.

words struck her

silently, "He had

tender corner of his

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must be afraid to see that I would meet

have rescued me to keep

the thought, her brief glimmer of hope extinguished, and her heart sank

with the scar on your

swirling thoughts, tinged with a rare note of concern. Claire snapped her gaze upward to meet his, momentarily stunned by the unexpected warmth in

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I have misheard? His tone suggested

he truly

her, she felt the sharp sting of

doctor sew

silence, he turned

there, lost in a daze, her appearance

lay sprawled on the

back last night, Claire? Where's the proud little princess of the Prescott

who was unafraid to love or hate. Finally, he couldn't help but voice his question. Such

her, "Why hadn't I resisted? Chapter

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a cruel irony! Wasn't it all precipitated by him in the first

his orders, I had been broken during those

by asking now? Did he orchestrate

too?

demeanor since my release from prison was nothing but

though a blade had sliced through her skin and plunged into her heart,

man she loved most was

managed a bitter smile, "It's just a scar.

what happened to

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