Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 438:

He draped the coat over her nonetheless. She merely gazed at him with serene eyes, then silently let the coat slide to the floor beside her. All the while, she remained silent, hugging herself tightly and staring blankly at the coat on the floor.

Brian’s voice was thick with emotion. “Natalia, are you alright? I… I’m sorry; this is all my fault.”

He covered his face with his hands, his shoulders heaving as he was wracked with sobs. In that moment, he was engulfed in regret. His goal had been to push her away, to extinguish her feelings for him. He simply wanted her to awaken to her own life.

However, he never anticipated such a horrific event would befall her. True, his feelings were not romantic, but he had known her for years.

In his heart, she was like a sister.

How could his heart not break? How could he not blame himself?

“Natalia, can you say something to me?”

Brian bent down, crouching in front of her, his voice threaded with caution.

But Natalia remained silent.

silence only confirmed

believed she had been violated by that man,

unleashed with every punch and kick,

by Brian’s kick, then slammed back

with the

several rounds, the man was spitting blood, his body battered

and Andres arrived, this was the carnage they walked

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and hurried over. “Brian, calm

thought of Natalia being tormented, coupled with his own sense of guilt, made him loathe himself even

pulled him back from

in life-threatening danger. And for letting Natalia get

his shoulder, then quickly stepped back, creating

to her rescue today. After all this, she and I

walked past him