Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 414 Come Back to Me

When had he gotten here? It was too late to hide now.

I stood up casually, holding the Stone of Duality in my hand. "What's this?" I mouthed.

When confronted, the best defense isn't to explain yourself but to seize the initiative and throw the question back.

As expected, Carter's eyes flickered with a trace of panic when he met my questioning gaze.

Using the chance, I pulled out the piece hanging around my neck and fitted it together with the one in my hand. In black and white, the positive and negative teardrop-shaped pieces formed a perfect circle.

I grabbed his hand and demanded an explanation.

I wondered if he would tell me the truth.

After all, in his mind, we had already swapped fates successfully.

The eighty-one days of the ritual weren't up until midnight tonight, so he hadn't had time to deal with this stone before I confronted him.

My gaze grew more suspicious by the second, and finally, he sighed in resignation. "Chloe, I lied to you."

Was he going to admit it now?

"The Soul-Stabilizing Pendant I gave you wasn't just one piece," he said.

Feigning confusion, I looked at him, and he continued, "The pendant has two parts."

The moment he mentioned the Soul-Stabilizing Pendant, I knew he wasn't being honest. He had no intention of telling me the full truth.

"At the time, I didn't want you to worry, so I didn't tell you. Besides needing Zoey's parents' blood, my own blood was also required. I've been hiding this piece of the stone to keep you from finding out. But don't worry-its purpose was only for the ritual, which lasts for eighty-one days. Now that your soul is stabilized, you don't need to wear it anymore."

Liar!

Carter, since when were you so skilled at lying?

If I hadn't uncovered your secret, were you planning to keep it from me until the day you died?

He had shifted all my misfortunes onto himself in the shadows.

Even if fate changed and his death seemed like an accident, no one would ever suspect it was due to these two stones.

keep me in the dark forever, so

I would move on from the pain of

of me someday, I'll fall in love with someone else,

and live a long, carefree

leaving behind only a lonely grave before he

what a meticulous plan

into his arms, my sorrow was misinterpreted as believing his lie about the Soul-Stabilizing

of my head. "It's okay. It's just a few drops of blood every

to comfort me, my chest tightened with an unbearable

I let my tears soak

"Don't cry. I'm your husband-it's

smiled at me. "That must be the doctor. If they

used my sleeve to

it was, he always treated me with

fool! How could I

20

entered was a stranger to

quality black shirt peeking out beneath it. He had a high nose bridge

extended his hand to greet

the suited man I had seen before, this was another of

shook his

voice calm. "Carter's already explained the

and the matter of the Stone

took out a high-definition electronic laryngoscope. "Don't worry.

examination was over, Carter asked, "What's causing her inability

carefully. There's only one explanation. The drug she was given affected her central nervous system, disrupting

it be treated?" Carter asked, frowning

was given is a

drug only lasts seven days. Could her voice recover

"No," Matthew said. "She's

implied that if she takes the antidote within seven days, there won't be any

wasn't surprising-it fit Yael's methods

to trap Whitney, while Yael used

I'd have to beg him for the antidote to regain

for me to give

"That b*st*rd!" Carter growled.