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

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

After all this, you must

before. Please give me one more chance.”

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

away. “Alexander, I’m grateful you took that hit for me, but it

you

deceived me for seven years. The trust between

his lips

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

fell over the room, broken only by Alexander’s shallow breathing.

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