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.

give her

she loved;

secret with his life.

on her trip, Rachel

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

however, that

leaving Jeffrey alone in the hospital, solely under a caretaker’s care,

chose

both. With her always around, Jeffrey wouldn’t need to

to him. “Jeffrey, I’m going away for a

into joyful applause. “Yes,

I’ll

“Okay!”

the hospital, Rachel’s phone

significant progress in Jeffrey’s custody case. We’ve almost collected all the evidence, and I

you believe the timing

as her attorney, she showed

reputation, Rachel couldn’t shake a hint of anxiety. With her father still alive, the battle for her brother’s

are you

“It’s a toss-up. If you could provide any photos or videos of your daily interactions with Jeffrey, that

you mentioned, I’ll

out to Yvonne for assistance. She was aware that despite Yvonne’s marriage to Norton, her financial situation had not

the marriage by

he resented the

been funneling her funds into settling debts. Although the Burke family had committed to helping with the loan repayments, it forced Yvonne

need one million, right? I’ll transfer it to

I’m sorry to trouble you again. If it’s too much

I ever let myself

Yvonne attempted to transfer the funds to

the transfer

a day? Since when did Norton’s account have such restrictions? Was this some

contain her frustration.

before she could even spot Norton, his assistant,

doing right