After Divorcing my Captain Husband

Chapter 583 Facing Fears Together

Chloe placed the book aside and sat by James' bed. "James, it is normal to be scared before surgery. You do not have to hold it in. If you are afraid, you can talk to me. I will be here with you the whole time." That was why she came here in the first place, not to see him suffer and resort to torturing himself with books. "I am a man. How can I admit I am scared in front of a woman like you?"

After speaking, James turned his head away, acting proud.

Chloe responded by pinching the inside of his arm hard. "Ouch! Why did you do that?"

"See? It does not matter if you are a man or a woman. We all feel pain and fear. It is not about gender, and I would not laugh at you."

James had said the same thing to her before at the hospital. Now she was returning the favor.

James pursed his lip. "Smith never wanted me to have the surgery because he is afraid I will die on the operating table. I have known this all along."

Even though he had told Chloe that Smith just wanted to control him, that was a lie.

Smith was the best brother and friend to James' father, but he died right in front of Smith, and there was nothing Smith could do.

Smith was terrified that James might suffer the same fate.

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tracker in Chloe's phone, he still had some idea of what

Smith was the Minister of Defense. There was no way James would not have any

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level of clarity made Chloe's sense of guilt even

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you do it. He thinks he is so clever, always thinking he is doing everything for my sake. I am