She felt suppressed, confined, and despairing.

"You're awake."

Eliza's tired eyes slowly focused on the man, revealing a glimmer of fragile, haunting beauty. "Aaron."

"Don't be sad." Aaron had also lost his mother, so he deeply understood Eliza's feelings. "Actually, you've got it wrong about Casper. He never mentioned anything about a kidney swap."

Eliza shook her head, her voice strained. "Not mentioning it doesn't mean he hadn't thought about it. Hasn't Casper done enough monstrous things for Nova already?"

"I know better than you the kind of person he is," she added.

Aaron pressed his lips together, giving up on defending Casper. "I didn't expect Rose's illness to worsen so quickly. If I had been more vigilant, maybe..."

"It's not your fault." If it was anyone's fault, it had to be Casper's. "Aaron, I'm exhausted. I want to sleep for a bit."

"Then rest well."

Aaron had just left when Nova appeared at the door of Eliza's hospital room.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a pity." Nova looked down at Eliza lying in the bed, her voice dripping with mockery. "Heard your mom's dying?"

she's decided to donate

a kidney donation consent form. "Look.

shot up from her bed and snatched the form from Nova's hands. The more she read, the more her

with this." Eliza tore the document to

was unfazed. "We'll see

I won't let you

Nova, she had the power. What would happen to Eliza? Was she just supposed to sit and wait

her IV, changed her clothes, and

Eliza. "Mr. Casper, your wife has left

got into a

rare to

in front of an art

puzzled. "Why would the missus go

presence here

to conceal the surge of aggression in his eyes. "She actually came to see

slightly stunned.

man was

Zach to join Welton International, causing a recent uproar that

do you

of his nose,

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