Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 427 Cousin

After explaining everything, I felt a weight lift off my chest.

Keeping it a secret from him had been eating away at me with guilt. While Carter wasn't thrilled with how things turned out, he seemed resigned. At this point, all we could do was take it one step at a time. It was as if this had been written into our fate.

Carter's plan to trade lives had been discovered in its final days, and I had disrupted it.

Nothing had changed. Destiny was impossible to rewrite.

Perhaps this was my fate-to meet an untimely end in every lifetime.

I used to have so many regrets, but being reunited with him again made everything else seem trivial. For now, we were still together, and that was enough.

My only lingering regret was not being able to leave behind a shared child with Carter. I couldn't help but wonder what our child would've been like.

If only I had more time, I would've loved to have a baby-a symbol of us.

When we returned to the living room, I learned Amber had gone to her room to catch up on sleep. The family doctor was busy tending to Taylor's wounds.

Whitney, meanwhile, stood silently by a potted plant, lost in thought.

The sound of my footsteps seemed to wake her from her reverie. She quickly turned toward me.

"Chloe, you're hurt, aren't you?"

Her eyes landed on my wrist. "This is because of me, isn't it? How could you be so foolish? You cut yourself! If something happened to you, what would I do? I wouldn't want to live anymore!" She knew all too well that someone like Amber wouldn't let her off so easily.

If Amber were so easy to deal with, Whitney wouldn't have spent 20 years trapped by Taylor's side.

Amber couldn't possibly be serious about letting her go just because of a few words I'd said.

Results that appeared effortless were often the result of someone silently bearing the burden behind the scenes.

Not wanting to upset Whitney, I gently reassured her, "It's okay. It didn't hurt at all. I just accidentally nicked myself."

Taylor let out a cold laugh. "You went through all that trouble, didn't you?"

I shot him a smile. "Not as much as you."

Taylor smirked. "Ha."

I responded, "Ha-ha."

tension between us was palpable, with sparks practically flying

Yael's timid voice broke the standoff. "Chloe, could

forgotten

flexed his wrist. "Chloe's hand is injured.

chilling look in his dark eyes didn't seem like he was about to gently apply ointment. More like he was planning to rub salt into the wounds instead. Sensing the danger, Yael hesitated. "That's

replied smoothly. "We're family. As your cousin,

a certain bite. A

whole situation felt

personally tending to Yael's injuries, all while calling him his

ointment and approached Yael. "Where

a hand over my eyes. "Chloe, be good

downright adorable. I

me. She probably had a lot she wanted to say to

the room, a

but I couldn't help wondering, "Had

of Carter casually slicing off someone's finger at the Gardner Residence without so much as a flinch, I

Though, to be fair, while his life had been hard, he did drag me to that

in clear boundaries when it comes to right

through the hallway, Whitney's gaze lingered on me, a

all

chose this." I said softly. "Don't be sad. A small injury

tell her that my time was running

I could before the end?

could save Whitney,

why did you step into my life? I never wanted to drag you

over the smallest things. Our brothers would take turns comforting her, but I was the one she listened to most, the one she clung

three brothers, only Greg remained. As for me, the sister

stroked her cheek gently.

never

happy you were watching the show that day? Every day after we remove

liked calling her Anna. That name had been tainted by

stubbornly