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.”

remember that you saved my

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

After all this, you must see I wasn’t lying–you mean everything to me.”

blind before. Please give me one

won’t look like before,

eyes welled up, but I turned away. “Alexander, I’m grateful you took that hit for me, but

you did.”

me for seven years. The trust between us is shattered

dimmed, his

sacrifice–especially when you created this situation. What happened to you

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

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Chapter 15

in that hospital bed, I

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