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..."

voice trembled, barely

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

"Yes, I saved you."

question teetering on her lips,

Claire was left speechless.

simple words struck her

mused silently, "He had saved

that prove, in some tender corner

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that I would meet my end at the hands of that

must have rescued me to keep me alive for

the thought, her brief glimmer of hope extinguished, and

with the scar on your

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

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misheard? His

he truly care about

the weight of his words settled upon her, she felt

saw the doctor sew dozens

turned to

in a daze,

lay sprawled on the floor of Jacob's villa the night

back last night, Claire? Where's the proud

Frederick beheld Claire in this state, his mind flooded with images of that fiery and fearless girl of yesteryears who was unafraid to love or hate.

bitterness slicing through her, "Why hadn't I resisted? Chapter 37

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

of his orders, I had been broken during those fourt years

asking now?

too?

since my release from prison

her skin and plunged into her heart, the pain so acute it nearly robbed her

man she loved most

scar. As long

what happened to

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