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.

IV, his voice cold and steady. “You want me to

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

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

What have you done in my name?”

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ten years to see what you really are-a snake in

her a

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

been the one to marry you six years ago, maybe we’d have been happy. Maybe I wouldn’t have ended up

“Evander, answer me!”

the pause stretching

calm and flat. “I should be grateful I

She froze.

blood drained

“…What do you mean?”

ever actually love

so hard, she

laugh. “Six years ago, you took

trembled, her teeth chattering too much for