Don’t Fall for the Billionaire Lover by Rosa Winters

Chapter 1097

Connor watched helplessly as Chloe broke down, her sobs shaking her whole body. He felt his own eyes burn with tears.

He knew exactly what the past year had been like-for both of them. Every minute, every tiny moment was burned into his memory. For him, it had felt like his soul was locked away, shut in some small, dark box with nothing but endless emptiness and despair for company.

Connor had been through his share of hard times, more than most, and there had been plenty of moments when hope seemed completely out of reach. But nothing compared to this—the relentless, suffocating darkness that never seemed to end.

If Chloe hadn't been there, talking to him every day, keeping him tethered to the world, he honestly didn't know if he would've made it. She'd become his only light, the single bright thread in a year that had felt like one long, endless night.

He never gave up, though. Every day, he fought to claw his way back. It was like being a seed buried deep in frozen soil, waiting through countless cold nights, finally breaking free and reaching toward the sun.

Now, all those emotions-shock, relief, wild joy-crashed through him at once. But seeing Chloe crying like this wiped everything else away, leaving only a deep, aching pain for her. The past year had been harder on her than on him. She'd faced everything: the loneliness, the exhaustion, the harsh glare of the media, the constant pressure from work. Connor couldn't even imagine what it took to survive all that.

And now, all the feelings they'd both held in came pouring out at once.

Chloe cried as if her whole world was falling apart. All Connor could do was hold her hand tightly, refusing to let go.

Isaac and

moment they saw Chloe, they understood-something terrible

the doorway,

himself to step inside. He was a big guy, but tears streamed

battling

Connor flashed through his mind-the fights they'd survived together, the way they'd built their Al company from nothing, the endless nights, the laughter, the sense that anything was

broke him. Isaac just sank to his knees in the

the pain was no less real. He swallowed it down, stepped into the

by. As soon as

they dropped everything and headed straight to the hospital.

to Connor, but

all been through,

truth