She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 906:

Kristian squirmed, trying to break free, clutching his chest where the pain was sharpening. Standing at the warehouse door, he rasped, “I’m done for. If Lawrence patches me up again, it might be my last round.”

He didn’t know how much time he had left. But forever wasn’t in the cards.

If Freya had chosen him, he’d have ditched Lawrence’s treatments, happy just to be by her side.

But she didn’t want him.

So what was the point of fighting it?

He couldn’t stomach seeing her with someone else, nor could he picture a sunny life after her rejection.

Freya’s hand, steadying him, faltered. “Or did you go through all this to save me just so he doesn’t die?” The thought sent a jolt of raw emotion through Kristian.

“Whether it’s you or him, I want you both safe,” Freya said, her eyes brimming with honesty. “I don’t want either of you hurt or gone.” The Kristian now, or Freyrian, had never turned a blade on himself, and even if he’d tricked her, she understood why.

old Kristian, he’d paid his dues

them to suffer—she just wanted them

be?”

hesitation, her voice clear and unflinching. Deep down, she wasn’t sure how to choose, but with Kristian asking point-blank, she gave him the

that he was just chasing her stance. So why not give him a moment of

as he leaned into her, surrendering. “Alright, I’ll listen

from g?

he’d be the one to fade away. But

and called the bodyguard nearby, telling him to hustle

the blood from the bodyguard’s eyes. Freya eased him

and Kristian sat in the car, the remote countryside

the city, the clock just ticking past one in

with a call from Lawrence. “I’m in Alerith,” Lawrence said,

face pale as a ghost, and she kept the earlier

off. Wasn’t something supposed to have gone down with Kristian? How was