Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 363:

Rachel was about to disconnect when Brian clenched his jaw and muttered, “Dare you hang up on me?”

However, the only response was silence. She had hung up on him.

Following their conversation, Rachel felt her appetite vanish. She had barely managed a few spoonfuls of her food when her hospital room door suddenly burst open. Brian’s figure appeared in the doorway.

Caught off guard, Rachel halted her spoon in midair. “How did you manage to find me here?”

“I have my ways,” Brian responded as he approached and took a seat next to her. Noticing her reluctance to eat, he inquired softly, “Lost your appetite, have you?”

“Somewhat,” she admitted honestly.

“Is there something particular you’d feel like eating? I can go get it for you.”

To her surprise, Brian offered it on his own initiative.

merely shook her

for a gentler approach. “Perhaps

“Nachos?”

She continued to refuse.

then?”

ignore the

his face. “Aren’t these your old favorites?” Exhaling a deep sigh, she turned to him. “Do you understand my condition at all? My condition only allows for bland meals.

a sorrowful look in her eyes, she added, “Forget it. I was always the one nursing you back to health. Did you ever do

excuse his neglect, yet they echoed

to lift her spirits with her favorite foods, prepared just right,

is your escape

to speak had

had others care for you, so it’s perhaps expected you wouldn’t know how to reciprocate.

need to

response was a disinterested shake of

evident