Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 678:

When he arrived, the doctor looked up from his files. “Are you Rachel’s family?”

Jeffrey swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded. “Yes. I’m her brother.”

“Does she have any other relatives?”

Jeffrey shook his head with determination. “I’m the only one she has.” The doctor hesitated for a moment, then adjusted his glasses and sighed. In the end, he chose to tell the truth.

Thirty minutes later, Jeffrey rushed out of the doctor’s office and ran straight to the stairwell.

In the dim, damp stairwell, where no one could see him, he finally let go. His shoulders shook as he broke down, sobbing uncontrollably.

Kidney failure… Cancer…

the medical terms blurred together—things he neither understood nor

dug into his scalp, his entire body trembling. Why? Why did it have to be Rachel? Why was fate so merciless to the one person who had already endured so much? This

clicked. The way she always told him to take care of himself… it wasn’t

she pushed him to find a job,

𝕆𝖗𝗂𝗀𝗂𝗇𝖆𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝗉𝗎𝖻𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁𝖾𝖽 𝖔𝗇 gⲁⅼ𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀․𝚌𝗼𝗆

did, that she might not be around

endless cycle of grief. No one was there to comfort

the soft glow of morning filtered

still, her lashes trembled as she forced her heavy eyelids to

had been keeping a silent vigil by her side,

caught a sliver of light. Slowly, her vision adjusted until she could make out the familiar features of

smile tugged at her lips—weak but enough to ease the storm raging in his

Jeffrey blurted out, his voice