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 through the

Yael's timid voice broke the standoff. "Chloe, could you help me apply

had nearly forgotten about the poor

hand is injured. I'll handle

like he was about to gently apply ointment. More like he was planning to rub

"We're family. As your cousin, I must help my

the word cousin with a certain bite. A

situation felt

to Yael's injuries,

and approached Yael. "Where are you

hand over my eyes. "Chloe, be good and step outside. Don't look at anything

petty jealousy was downright adorable. I chuckled.

hand and pulled her along with me. She probably had a lot she wanted to say to me

the room, a wailing "Ouch!" echoed from

I couldn't help wondering,

recalled the scene of Carter casually slicing off someone's finger at the Gardner Residence without so much as a flinch, I almost forgot-he

he did drag me to that island, starve me for days, and make me kneel for

clear boundaries when it

gaze lingered on me, a faint sadness

is all my fault, isn't

your fault. I chose this." I said softly. "Don't be sad. A small injury for me is worth your freedom-it's

didn't tell her that my time was

what I could before the end? That was a

I could save Whitney, I'd have no

you step into my life? I never wanted to

brothers would take turns comforting her, but I was the one she listened to most, the one she

brothers, only Greg remained. As for me, the sister she once knew

stroked her

I'd never let

only 25-you've got a long road ahead Remember how happy you were watching the

Anna. That

I stubbornly