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

reached for my hand but stopped mid–air,

you must see I wasn’t lying–you mean everything to me.”

Please give me one more

surgery abroad. I won’t look like

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

you did.”

years. The trust between us is shattered beyond

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. What happened to you was self–inflicted; what almost happened to me was collateral

the room, broken only by Alexander’s

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Love, Seven Minutes of Trath

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in that hospital bed, I felt no anger anymore–pair Bone day

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