Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 236

Chapter 236:

Seeing Rachel lying in bed, her face drained of color, Brian’s chest tightened with worry.

“Why do you look so pale? What happened?” As soon as the words left his mouth, his gaze landed on the bedsheet behind her.

The fabric was pristine white—one he didn’t recognize from the hospital.

“You’re in a hospital,” he said, his voice sharpening, more a statement than a question.

Rachel masked the flicker of panic in her eyes and forced a calm response. “Yeah, my period cramps were really bad, so I came in for a check-up.”

“What caused it? Did they run any tests?”

“It’s okay. I got an injection, and I’m already feeling better.”

After a few more exchanges, she quickly found an excuse to end the call.

at his phone, an odd sense of emptiness

still hadn’t

the past, she would have been jealous,

she seemed completely

hadn’t called him or sent him a single message. She had kept it

whenever she wasn’t feeling well, she would cling to him,

he hold her—like a child, always trying to remind him that she belonged

she no longer turned to

his fingers against his temples, a dull ache forming behind his eyes.

what you

knock at the door pulled him from his thoughts. Ronald stepped in, his posture

on. I need to ask

sir.

any changes in Rachel lately?” Brian’s voice was steady, but there

It wasn’t his place to comment—Rachel was Brian’s