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 the

him that she loved; it could

to guard this secret with his life. Never would he

trip, Rachel paid a

had made a remarkable recovery and was poised to leave the hospital. She had initially intended

that conversation

the hospital, solely under a caretaker’s

she chose

planned to secure a living arrangement for them both. With her always around, Jeffrey wouldn’t need to

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

burst into joyful applause. “Yes,

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

“Okay!”

hospital, Rachel’s phone rang. It

We’ve almost collected all the evidence, and

you believe the timing

him as her attorney, she showed she

Eric’s strong reputation, Rachel couldn’t shake a hint of anxiety. With her father still alive,

are you

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

fee you mentioned, I’ll arrange for it as quickly as

out to Yvonne for assistance. She was aware

coerced into the

resented the

committed to helping with the loan repayments, it forced Yvonne to tread carefully around Norton. Known for her independence, Yvonne detested being under Norton’s thumb. Yet, she readily agreed

one million, right? I’ll

it’s too much

When have I ever let myself be

Yvonne attempted

several tries, the transfer wouldn’t go

Since when did Norton’s

longer contain her frustration. She strode purposefully toward Norton’s

even spot Norton, his assistant, Leif Wilson,

doing right