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.”

that you saved my

reached for my hand but stopped mid–air, his acid–scarred fingers

After all this, you must

reconcile. I was blind before. Please

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

I turned away. “Alexander, I’m grateful you took that hit for me, but it doesn’t

you

years. The trust between us

expression dimmed, his lips

don’t heal with one act of sacrifice–especially when you created this

broken

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hospital bed, I felt no anger

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