My Mirror Image

Chapter 188

Chapter 0188

She sat on a bench in the hospital corridor, her face devoid of color, not knowing when the call on her phone got disconnected.

Chad’s words echoed repeatedly in her mind, alternating with the image of her grandfather lying in the hospital bed, covered in tubes,

Candice felt like her throat was constricted, and even expelling a breath required tremendous effort. Her face was chillingly cold, and she numbly reached out, feeling some moisture.

Was she crying?

Candice stared at her moist fingertips In a daze.

Alex was right. She had indeed overestimated herself, thinking that she alone could move Chad and improve her grandfather’s condition.

How could that be possible?

Her shoulders drooped, and her long hair fell, obscuring her expression from view.

Footsteps approached, and a familiar chilly aura mingled with the chaotic scent of disinfectant piercing her senses,

She tensed, hearing Alex’s cold volce, “Want me to operate on your grandfather?*

His words lacked any emotion. She slowly lifted her head, tears clinging to the corners of her eyes.

She gazed at Alex, who wore an Indifferent expression, his dark eyes betraying emotions she couldn’t decipher.

He looked down at her. “Do you want it?”

For a long while, Candice’s bewildered mind slowly started working. She croaked, “Your terms?”

She stared at him, her beautiful eyes devoid of their usual liveliness, resembling an unfathomable abyss, tranquil and undisturbed.

Alex’s eyes narrowed slightly, and then he casually said, “This is a problem for you to consider. Why do you think I would help you?”

Candice’s lace was already pale, and upon hearing his words, she didn’t react much, just continued to gaze at him.

Alex’s eyebrow twitched, and he scrutinized her for a moment before reaching out and grasping

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tone was gentle. “I’m

gripping Candice’s chin exerted

to tilt her face upward along his force. She understood his meaning.

help her.

she had to satisfy him and make him willing to assist

the corridor for a long time before

her grandfather.

happened to witness nurses turning her grandfather over like he was

pushed

at the doorway, Candice

murmurs.

It was heart–wrenching.

couldn’t bear to watch any

left the room did Candice

during this period, each time she saw her grandfather in this state, the defenses she had built

again.

started trimming his nails, she noticed how long they had grown.

hair, and taught her to write, now dry and stiff like a piece of withered

Candice’s vision

scolding and Alex’s humiliation. But seeing her

IVs, she couldn’t contain

to be like this? Why did it have to be her?

fell on the back of her grandfather’s hand. The old man seemed to sense something. looked at

that, he tried to raise his hand to wipe her tears, but

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was losing control of her emotions,

in her

could get tired and feel unable to hold

she had

on, hold on with all her might.

were gently pulled down, and Candice

her paim.

I’m sorry.

sorry” in Candice’s palm every time he called her name until the nurse reminded her later that her grandfather’s emotions

time she calmed him down and left the hospital, it was already evening. Alex’s call happened to come in. Candice

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