Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 181

Chapter 181:

“I arrived just in time and managed to save her. Fortunately, she wasn’t violated,” he explained, his voice carefully measured.

Rachel nodded. “That’s good to hear.”

Her calm tone washed over him like a cool breeze. Brian realized she wasn’t angry anymore, and a rare sense of relief flooded through him.

“Rachel, thank you,” he murmured.

“For what?”

“For not being mad.”

With one arm encircling her slender waist, he pressed a gentle kiss against her forehead. However, as he leaned in to deepen the kiss, she turned her head away. “I’m not feeling well. Let’s save this for another time,” she whispered.

Brian remained silent.

casually inquired, “You

this detail. Her reminder struck

“I’ll have Ronald take it to be cleaned

down, her expression unreadable. “There’s no need. Once something gets dirty, no matter how much you scrub it, it’s never truly the same. Just

thought you were mad. Thank

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“No,” he admitted.

stared at the hospital TV, though she wasn’t really watching. Her mind was tangled in two thoughts. One was the medical check-up scheduled for tomorrow. She wished, just for a second, that reality could be rewritten—that she would wake up and find

waited another half hour before finally speaking up. “I’m tired. I want to

off the main light and said, “Go

frowned slightly.

“I’m staying with you.”

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