Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

Chapter 408 What If She's My Mother?

By the time we finished, both of us were drenched in sweat.

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I leaned against Carter, feeling the warmth of his body. He kissed the top of my head before carrying me to the bathroom, where he carefully helped me clean up.

My makeup had long since been washed away. However, my face was slightly red, and itchy, likely irritated from wearing the makeup for too long.

Carter's gaze lingered on the marks on my skin. His eyes softened with a hint of guilt. "I'm sorry, Chloe. I couldn't control myself earlier."

I shook my head and traced my fingers along his handsome features tenderly.

"I'll find a way to fix your voice," he promised.

I nodded. As long as I could see him again, losing my voice forever wouldn't matter.

Dipping my finger into the water, I wrote two words on the fogged-up glass, "Damian."

The past two days had been so chaotic that I hadn't had the chance to ask what happened after my disappearance.

Carter understood my unspoken question and began explaining in his calm voice. "The day he sent you away, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. Shortly after, I got news of the car accident- your car had collided with another, caught fire, and plunged into the ocean." Hearing this, I instinctively grabbed his hand. He must have been devastated at that time.

Carter patted the back of my hand. "It's all in the past now."

I mouthed silently, "What about Damian?"

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"He was injured. Though they pulled him out of the water alive, he ended up in the ICU. He only pulled through these past two days."

Damian must have known I had already been sent away. Knowing he had betrayed Carter and couldn't escape Amber's grasp, he chose to end his own life.

The fact that he survived was a miracle in itself.

of the tall, silent man who had shielded Carter and me more than

gestured to Carter, "Carl, don't blame him. He had no other

slightly. "You don't blame him? He

other

me in my messages,

I feared Carter might

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thoughts spiraled

interrupted my turmoil, holding my hand tightly

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the hospital, unconscious, while your 'body' sank

squeezed his fingers and mouthed, "What

it. I sent countless people to

Carter went through during

body lost forever. Whether to find you or avenge you, I started piecing everything together, reviewing every detail. "Soon, I realized something was off. I had someone investigate Damian's recent movements and

under such circumstances-especially when dealing with

mouthed, "What

then, he's been by my side. But he never mentioned Amber, which

still untreated, Damian stayed by my side through thick and thin. I thought it

of weapons. He's a top-tier mercenary. It wasn't an accident when I was pushed into the sea and saved by the Doltons. Maybe the Doltons placed Damian by my side to ensure I wouldn't face danger again." I was confused and I mouthed, "How did you figure

me to the hotel and drugged me? I contacted Amber. When she arrived, she attacked Tiffany without hesitation, almost beating her to death. Amber said something that stuck with me. She said that Tiffany and Vare absolutely impossible. Her tone was so decisive, it was strange. When the drugs wore off,

wrote two words on the glass,

Tiffany-it must be because I share a blood relationship with the Doltons. Your disappearance and Damian's silence in the ICU made me suspect Amber was involved. If she is, then this scheme was set up over a decade ago. Damian might not even be her only spy around me. I didn't know if you were truly gone, so I could only investigate quietly And then, you

me, but he had already uncovered so

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