Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 43

Chapter 43:

“Consider me a person in my own right. Do you really think I’m someone you can just walk all over? I have my own dignity. I feel happiness and go through sorrow too. It’s time for both of us to take a step back and think.”

Brian had always viewed himself as resilient.

Yet, as Rachel’s words reached him, they seemed to press a burdensome weight onto his chest, suffocating him with anguish.

“Okay.” That was the only feeble word he could manage.

With a swift motion, Rachel grabbed her suitcase and brushed past him.

“Hold on. I need to ask you something,” Brian called out, his deep eyes shadowed with an unfamiliar gloom.

“What do you want?”

“Did you say you loved me because I rescued you at the pool?”

Turning back to him, Rachel’s voice was laden with regret. “Honestly, if I had the choice, I wish we’d never crossed paths that day.”

If she hadn’t fallen for him, could they have avoided this tangled mess? Might she have escaped the pain that now cut through her? As she left, a chilling wind swept through the doorway.

Yet this breeze struck Brian with a sharpness that seemed to target his very soul.

The swimming pool… He had saved her?

Despite racking his brain and sifting through his memories, he found no recollection of such an event.

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There could be only one explanation. He was not the one who had saved her. Nor was he the one she had initially fallen for.

Should she discover her heart had mistakenly yearned for another, believing it was him…

No, he wouldn’t allow it to happen.

As soon as the idea entered his mind, he dismissed it immediately.

was determined not to give

had to be him that she

secret with his life.

trip, Rachel paid a

poised to leave the hospital. She had initially intended to speak with Brian about having Jeffrey

that conversation

thought of leaving Jeffrey alone in the

chose to bring him

living arrangement for them both. With

for Jeffrey and offered it to him. “Jeffrey, I’m going

he could accompany her, Jeffrey burst into joyful applause. “Yes, yes! I love being

it’s settled. We leave today. I’ll be back shortly

“Okay!”

the hospital, Rachel’s phone rang. It

been significant progress in Jeffrey’s custody case. We’ve almost collected all the

believe the timing

choosing him as her attorney, she showed

her father still

you

a toss-up. If you could provide any photos or videos of your daily interactions with Jeffrey, that would strengthen

fee you mentioned, I’ll arrange for it as

Yvonne for assistance. She was aware that despite Yvonne’s marriage to Norton, her financial

coerced into the marriage by his

he resented

with the loan repayments, it forced Yvonne to

right? I’ll transfer it to

you again. If it’s too much or if

have I ever let myself be

attempted to transfer the

several tries, the

Five hundred a day? Since when did Norton’s account have such restrictions? Was

frustration. She strode purposefully

she could even spot Norton,

Norton doing right