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?"

to donate her

kidney donation consent form. "Look. All

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

won't get away with this." Eliza tore

was unfazed. "We'll see

Nova added, "Eliza, I won't let

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

IV, changed her clothes,

black luxury Dillon spotted Eliza. "Mr. Casper, your wife has left the

got into a

too; it was rare to see Eliza

taxi eventually stopped in front of

the missus go into an art

Eliza's presence here must mean she had arranged to meet

it made it hard for Casper to conceal the

slightly

was

intentionally arranged for Zach to join Welton International, causing a recent uproar that infuriated

Casper, do you want

bridge of his nose, forcefully suppressing his fury,

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