Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 536 I'm Giving You Back the Life I Owe You Bang!

In the distance, fireworks suddenly lit up the dark sky above the cemetery, their bright flashes cutting through the heavy, oppressive night. The contrast was almost surreal, as though the scene itself were an unsettling twist of fate.

Tears streamed down my face. As I looked down, I saw the raindrops pouring onto the bloodstained earth where Luke lay.

Luke had died in the relentless downpour.

By the time Carter arrived, I was still holding Luke's lifeless body, unable to stop

my sobs, gasping for breath through the overwhelming sorrow.

Wisteria's body lay farther away. Her eyes remained wide open, staring unblinkingly, as if her last moments had been spent fixated on my face, determined to remember me until the very end.

The maid, perhaps realizing her own fate was sealed, had fled after abandoning Wisteria. She ran down the mountain but was quickly caught by Carter as he made his way up.

Carter saw me from a distance, rushing toward me with urgency. "Chloe ... "

His tall, commanding frame, once impeccably dressed in a tailored suit, was now drenched by the rain, his hair tousled. He couldn't possibly know whether I was injured or just covered in Luke's blood, but he only saw me, trembling and soaked, in the middle of the devastation.

"Chloe, are you hurt?" His voice trembled as he kneeled before me, his hands reaching out to gently touch my face.

In that moment, I realized just what I was clinging to. My voice was thick with tears. "He took the death curse for me... but I'm fine."

Luke's blood had seeped into my wedding dress, but this time, the only difference was that I was still alive.

I held Luke's body close to me, his eyes shut tight, his lips curving into the faintest of smiles, as if he had found peace at last.

"Don't cry," Carter whispered softly. "It was his choice. He was in so much pain in life. Death was his release."

Carter swiftly removed his jacket and draped it over my shoulders, trying to shield me from the cold.

barely

event earlier. I had Damian watching over them. Then I received the

No, your mother's plan. If the children are safe,

darkened with

bodyguards, who carefully moved Luke's body, before swiftly scooping me

be our wedding day, but instead of heading toward a celebration,

aim was never to hurt me-she only wanted to protect

Carter had no reason to

you know where she

father ... the Tidal Coast. If she plans to leave,

down the road, I could feel his pain,

had finally found his mother, but he had never reconnected with her because of what she had done to me. Now, the possibility of losing her again

sped through the storm, raindrops battering against the windows, the wipers working desperately

utterly drained, and my throat burned with the effort

didn't even know where

filled with an eerie silence, our breaths rising and falling

reached the beach, and

makeup, revealing a look of innocence in

"You've come."

spotted her standing there and cautiously approached after noticing that there were no blood stains on her. "What

blood on my wedding dress. "It seems

she had done all this for Carter, I couldn't forget the pain

knew all along, didn't you?" "Yes," Carter replied, his voice steady. "I knew you were doing all this for me." "I knew I couldn't hide it from you, Carter. Come to me; come to your mother." Carter moved toward her, and I almost began to believe we had misunderstood her intentions. After all, Carter had so few

mind, a trickle of black blood slipped from

pace quickened, his concern intensifying as he

but Carter was there in an instant, catching her before she could

please," she whispered, clutching his shirt collar.

didn't understand how you felt. I wasn't there for you. I failed to raise