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

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

must

before. Please give

won’t look like before,

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

what you

for seven years. The trust between us

his lips

created this situation. What happened to you

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

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that hospital bed, I felt no

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