Chapter 156

"I thought you already knew she was my wife."

Timothy's lips curled into something between a smile and a sneer, his gentle tone laced with a threat that sent a chill through the air.

Herbert was left speechless, words caught in his throat.

Timothy didn't stop there. "A woman of mine-even if I'm done with her-

someone like you could never have her."

Jessica mustered all her strength, raised her hand, and slapped Timothy across the face.

The sharp crack echoed in the room.

Timothy rolled his tongue against his cheek, eyes glinting. "You've got some nerve. Hitting me in front of your lover, is that it?"

He finally tore his gaze from Herbert and stared down at Jessica in his arms.

But Jessica had already fainted.

Timothy's arms jerked in surprise. "Jess!"

Herbert rushed forward, but Timothy shoved him aside and scooped Jessica up, cradling her effortlessly in his arms.

cold as steel, cut into Herbert. "My wife isn't someone

Jessica in his arms,

after them, but stopped. As long as Jessica was still

do was watch as

lips together,

himself in the lab and cut off contact with the world, would things have turned out differently for him and

belonged to two completely different worlds. How had

front of the hospital. He stepped out, sliding his arm around Jessica's

in the hospital parking

hesitated, but moved to carry

"I'm fine. I don't need

already here. Sick or not, we'll

concern behind it. After all, she had just

I was

anyone-especially Timothy-to

was impossible, dying might be the only way to finally

out about her illness, he'd fill her room with doctors and tubes, desperate

grandmother had taken her to say goodbye. Her mother had been hooked to machines,

It hadn't saved her.

last days-living only because of those tubes-were

Jessica didn't want that.

she

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