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

for my hand but

After all this, you must see I wasn’t lying–you mean everything

I was blind before. Please give

like before, but at

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

what you

The trust between us is shattered

expression dimmed, his lips

“I’m not heartless. But past wounds don’t heal with one act of sacrifice–especially when you created this situation.

the room, broken

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bed, I

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