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.

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

didn’t kill anyone! It was an

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

about you? What have you done in my name?”

14:13

Chapter 202

can’t believe it’s taken me ten years to see what you really

called her a

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 be selfless-I only learned how to survive. At least before I met you, that

you six years ago, maybe we’d have been happy. Maybe I

“Evander, answer me!”

silent, the pause stretching on and

flat. “I should be grateful I didn’t

She froze.

blood drained

“…What do you mean?”

you ever

hit her so

humorless laugh. “Six years ago, you took my

trembled, her teeth chattering too much for