Revenge With My Undercover Cop Hubby

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Chapter 385 The Root of Shawn's Mental Struggles

9:00 a.m., the next morning.

Kelly accompanied Shawn to get a GI endoscopy.

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"They're putting me under general anesthesia." Shawn looked pale and anxious. It was clear he hadn't slept well the night before.

Kelly struggled to hold back a smile. If this was just his way of trying to get closer

to her, he was really going. to extreme lengths. A GI scope was no joke.

After all, he had to chug a ton of electrolyte solution the night before and completely clear out his system. Not exactly a romantic setup.

"Don't worry," Kelly said gently. "You'll be asleep the whole time. You won't feel a thing?

"When I was a kid, my mom was always busy-always at events, parties, and meetings. She didn't have time for me. After a while, I just started having stomach problems," Shawn said, his voice low and a little bitter. "One time, I was starving and ate something that had gone bad. Threw up so hard I started bleeding. Alone at home. Ever since then, my stomach's never been right." He gave a self- deprecating smile.

Shawn's childhood was far from happy. His father had never been in the picture, and his mom-fiercely ambitious-was hardly maternal.

Kelly looked at him, her tone quiet but piercing. "Do you hate Patrick?"

Shawn froze for a moment, then smiled faintly. "No. I mean, he wasn't a great

dad, but he did send money. I just tell myself... they got divorced. That's all."

Patrick couldn't be there for him like a normal father, and a kid doesn't understand things like child

support.

His eyes, his hesitation-he did hate Patrick, deep down.

Everything he'd worked for all these years had been, in some way, to prove something to that man.

the corporate world, which meant Shawn got a real shot at joining the

Wagner," called a nurse from the

quick smile, then

just part of some elaborate act,

a long rundown. Shawn's stomach had undergone partial surgery years ago, and he hadn't been eating properly recently. If he kept going like this,

when he was young, like it was nothing. But he'd actually had

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his eyes. When he saw her sitting there, he gave a small smile. "You stayed... I thought I'd

taking care of yourself? Skipping meals like that

first moved back to Scaville, I wanted to prove myself. I didn't want anyone to look

work the moment he joined the company.

know?" He added softly. "Why does he

be born into

his back on the family business to join the military. Just like scar had become a cop instead of taking

already theirs. And yet, they didn't even want

fraction of it. He thought joining the Wagner Group would finally get him what he deserved. But Patrick never

his guard up

had never treated him like a

What a joke.

someone who really cares for

didn't answer. He just looked at

had always liked taking things-fighting for

worthy. Only then

was how his

preschool, when another kid won a trophy in

to beat him in the next one that he ended up hospitalized with

won that trophy. Took it from the other

operated. Take what he wanted.