Love My Ex-Wife 37

After Divorce, My General Husband Chasin...

Chapter 37 Truly Heartbroken

1/7

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

2/7

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..."

voice trembled, barely

Chapter 37 Truly Heartbroken

her heart fluttered with a cocktail of nerves, fear, and

"Yes, I saved you."

teetering on her lips, Frederick provided

Claire was left speechless.

words struck her like

"He had saved

in some tender corner of his heart,

3/7

Frederick must be afraid to see that I would meet my end at the

me to keep

her brief glimmer of hope extinguished, and her heart sank

the scar on

Claire snapped her gaze upward to meet

Chapter 37 Truly Heartbroken

4/7

"Could I have misheard? His tone suggested he actually cared

he truly care

her, she felt

I saw the doctor sew dozens of stitches into your

he turned to lock her

lost in a daze,

lay sprawled on the floor of Jacob's villa

night, Claire? Where's the proud little

to love or hate. Finally, he couldn't

bitterness slicing through her, "Why hadn't I

5/7

Wasn't it all precipitated by him in the first

had been broken during

he mean by asking now?

too?

always suspected that my demeanor since my

and plunged into her

loved most was now her deepest

smile, "It's just a scar. As long as I'm not dead,

scar? Claire, what happened to you

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255