Chapter 15

Claire faced legal consequences for her attack. Her career was finished.

I visited Alexander once in the hospital.

Seven years of marriage, now reduced to a tragic joke.

His skin was twisted and puckered, like scorched earth after a wildfire.

His eyes flickered with hope when he saw me. His cracked lips moved, voice hoarse: “Evelyn, you came.”

Looking at the man before me stirred complicated emotions.

I placed the flowers gently on the bedside table, my gaze meeting his scarred face.

There was no love in my eyes now, only complexity.

“Alexander, thank you for taking the acid meant for me.”

you saved my

in his eyes. He reached for my hand but stopped mid–air, his acid–scarred fingers

all this, you must

blind before. Please give me one

reconstructive surgery abroad. I won’t look like before, but at least I won’t frighten you.”

up, but I turned away. “Alexander, I’m grateful

you

years. The trust between us is shattered beyond

expression dimmed, his

continued carefully: “I’m not heartless. But past wounds don’t heal with one act of sacrifice–especially when you created this situation. What happened to you was self–inflicted; what almost happened to me was collateral damage in

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that hospital bed, I felt no anger anymore–pair Bone

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