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.

which meant Shawn got a real

Wagner," called a nurse

quick smile, then

all just part of some elaborate

had undergone partial surgery years ago, and he hadn't been eating properly recently. If he kept going like this, things could

silence. He'd mentioned vomiting blood when he was young, like it was nothing. But he'd actually had surgery. Part of his stomach

frowned and walked into

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

that are you trying to get yourself killed?" Kelly snapped, more frustrated as

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

work the moment he joined the company. Eating on time hadn't

softly. "Why does he get to have you

be born into everything-wealth, opportunity, support and

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

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

to earn even a fraction of it. He thought joining the Wagner Group would finally get him what he deserved.

put his guard up against

treated him like a

What a joke.

who really cares for you someday," Kelly

answer. He

liked taking things-fighting for them.

feel worthy. Only then did he feel

how his mother had

kid won a

him in the next one that

won that trophy. Took it from the other boy's

operated. Take what he