Forbidden Passion

Chapter 595 Heartless

Evelyn had never seen Theodore this hyped before, and she was caught off guard. "Theodore, what's up?"

Theodore grabbed the phone with shaky hands, eyes glued to a pic of Phoebe grinning ear to ear. She'd been the star of all his teenage dreams.

Every time he dreamed of Phoebe, she'd be smiling at him, running away, looking back, and shouting, "My name is Mia."

Phoebe had always been in his dreams, so that day in the courtyard, when Vanessa showed up in a flowy white dress, smiling brighter than the sun, and someone called her Mia from behind, he thought Vanessa was the girl who saved him as a kid.

One slip-up led to a lifetime of regret.

Turned out, the girl he'd been searching for had been in his life all along. Phoebe's radiant smile had healed him, but he didn't recognize her.

That mistake was unforgivable.

Theodore called out, "Mia."

Evelyn heard him call Phoebe by her nickname and looked at him, surprised. "How do you know Phoebe's nickname is Mia?"

"She told me," Theodore said, his voice rough.

He gently stroked the screen with his fingers. Teenage Phoebe, in her white princess dress, looked like a little fairy who'd stepped into the human world. Her smile alone could fix everything.

Phoebe's smile was so unique; how did he mix her up with someone else?

That day, at the employee meeting when he joined the Reynolds Group, everyone looked serious, except Phoebe, who smiled so brightly and captivatingly.

He had met Phoebe long ago; why didn't he recognize her?

away, she wouldn't let us call her Mia anymore. I asked her why, but

family call Phoebe by

the first two years, he went to that village every summer, but he

puzzled. "Where did you

her. I went every year at first, asking around for her, but no one had seen her. Later, I stopped going. I didn't know she was always by my side," Theo's voice cracked. Evelyn got the gist. "You knew each other a

out we knew each other ages ago. No wonder I felt a sense of familiarity when I saw

pop up out of nowhere; they had

asked, "It's really amazing, isn't

a while, he nodded. "Mom, can you send

it for a bit, and sent the photo to him.

when she was little, very likable. But after Harper's

he did tonight. He had always been distant, refusing

own.

many years. He swore that if Phoebe made it out of the ICU, he'd make it all up to her, love her like crazy, and make her the

Phoebe woke up. Except for the whip marks on her

room, treated her again, and then left

at Phoebe's thin cheeks. His heart ached, and he wanted to

You hungry?"

the soft pillow, her back aching and itching, but her face was as calm as a still pond,

he felt a weird

too calm, like she

her like this. He'd rather she scream, hit him, curse him, anything but this

his face against her cool palm. "Are you mad at me for not

stayed indifferent to his

let you face danger again.