Cold husband burning regret

Chapter 282

Chapter 282

Evander’s face was dark, his expression clouded, and he said nothing.

Meanwhile, at the far end of a hallway in a small suburban clinic, a woman’s anguished cries echoed through the corridor.

The room at the end was an operating room.

Tricia lay strapped to the surgical table, her right hand cut open, the tendons exposed-no anesthesia, no mercy. When she passed out from the pain, they forced her awake, tormenting her until she could barely feel her own hand, until even the pain itself faded into numbness.

Her eyes stared up at the ceiling, hollow and blank. All she could do was repeat, over and over, that she wanted to see Evander.

The doctor led Natalie and Evander into the room.

Evander looked down at Tricia-frail, broken, and pitiful-without a flicker

of emotion on his face.

Tricia couldn’t move. Tears streamed from the corners of her eyes. “Evander… Evander, you promised you’d protect me. Why… why have you changed?”

The others lingered at the doorway, leaving only Evander and Tricia in the bright, sterile room.

slow drip of the IV, his voice cold and steady. “You want me to keep protecting you while you commit crimes-while

her voice raw with desperation. “I didn’t kill anyone! It was an accident,

he looked down at her. “Tricia, I know I owe you for everything over the past ten years, and I’ve paid that debt. Even

What have you done in my

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believe it’s taken me ten years to see what you

called her

raw and red, curved into a twisted smile. “If I hadn’t been like this, I’d have died a long time ago. You know what my adoptive father was like. I never learned to

I keep thinking… if I’d been the one to marry you six years

“Evander, answer me!”

stood silent, the pause

and flat. “I should be grateful I didn’t marry

She froze.

blood drained from

“…What do you mean?”

ever

question hit her so

soft, humorless laugh. “Six years ago, you took my grandmother’s two million because

teeth chattering too much for