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 could live on without

day, I would move on

20 years old. I have a long life ahead of me someday, I'll fall in love with someone else, get married, and have

surrounding me and live a long, carefree life until the

be complete, leaving behind only a lonely grave

a meticulous plan

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

head. "It's okay. It's just a few drops of blood every few days-it's not

me, my chest tightened with an unbearable ache, as though tiny silver needles were

I let

away tenderly. "Don't cry. I'm your husband-it's my duty to protect

at me. "That must

sleeve to wipe my

matter which lifetime it was, he

such a fool! How could

had wasted 20 years

who entered was

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

extended his hand to greet me. "Hello, I'm Matthew

suited man I had seen before, this was another of

and shook his hand, then

replied, his voice calm. "Carter's already

living room, and the matter of the Stone of Duality was left

high-definition electronic laryngoscope. "Don't

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

her vocal cords carefully. There's only one explanation. The drug she was

it be treated?" Carter asked, frowning

the drug she was given is

furrowed further. "I heard the drug only lasts seven days. Could her voice recover

"No," Matthew said. "She's

within seven days, there won't be any long-term effects. But the longer she waits, the higher the chances of permanent S damage-even complete loss

surprising-it fit Yael's

chains to trap Whitney, while Yael

was alive because he already knew I'd have to beg him for the antidote to regain

waiting for me to give in and

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