Forbidden Passion

Chapter 524 A Fateful Encounter

Phoebe never gave a damn about the entertainment biz, but she never saw it coming that Patrick had been blind once. His eyes looked totally fine now. Phoebe blurted out, "Did Patrick get a corneal transplant or something?"

Theodore's grip on the wheel got tighter, and he peeked at Phoebe's glowing phone. "What's the gossip online?"

Phoebe said, "They're saying there was an explosion during filming, and he got seriously hurt."

Theodore nodded. "Yeah, the Reynolds Group threw money at that movie. It was a cop flick. They rehearsed a big scene a bunch of times, but when they actually shot it, something went wrong. The explosion went off early, and he was driving through the blast zone. The car got blown into the air, flipped a bunch of times, and landed on a taxi."

Phoebe's hands got all sweaty. "What happened after that?"

Theodore went on, "The crash killed three people and seriously injured one. Patrick made it, but the actress riding shotgun wasn't so lucky. She died right there, and so did the taxi driver. The passenger in the back was still alive when they got to the hospital, but they died a few days later. The movie got canned."

Phoebe was horrified. "How did Patrick go blind?"

Theodore added, "The explosion messed up his eyes. Two days after he got out of the ICU, he said he couldn't see a thing. The docs thought it was just temporary from the trauma, but after checking him out, they found out it was corneal necrosis, and he might be blind for good."

"It was that bad?" Phoebe gasped.

"Yeah, but whether it was lucky or not, after the docs confirmed he was blind, the passenger in the taxi died. The passenger had signed an organ donation form, and the Winston family pulled some strings to get the family's approval to give Patrick the corneas."

Phoebe was stunned. "What was the passenger's name?"

There was no way it was that much of a coincidence, right? It couldn't be!

been a while, and he couldn't recall. "I

She sat up straight and looked

signed the organ donation form early," Theodore said. Phoebe slumped back in her seat,

guy's eyes were beautiful and that she wanted to dig them out and keep

off. Cindy knew all along that Patrick's corneas were Caleb's, which was why she became Patrick's contract lover. Theodore

was pale. She turned to Theodore and said, "Can you take me

display. "It's late. Why do

you're tired, just drop me

"You think I'd leave you on the side of the

you ditch me on the overpass last time without batting

she could think about was how much Cindy knew. Did Cindy go after Patrick on

recipients were top secret. Nobody knew who

heck did Cindy know Caleb's

glanced at Phoebe, then made a U-turn at the

knew how to live it up. If there was one place in the apartment she loved, it was the bathroom with its massage tub. Steam bath, glass sauna, and massage bath, with an embedded TV.

but didn't plan on

couldn't be him. Whoever else it was,

more

got out, dried off, and wrapped herself in a robe before

Phoebe standing outside. She quickly opened the door and let

couch and saw Cindy's wet hair draped over her shoulders, still wrapped in a robe. "Were you just taking a bath?" she asked. "Yeah, I was

head, looking uneasy. "I just found out something