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.

Kristian, he’d paid

want them to suffer—she just wanted

you had to pick, who’s it gonna be?”

wasn’t sure how to choose, but with Kristian asking point-blank, she gave him the answer

that he was just chasing her stance. So

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

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be the one to fade away. But he was content. That warm embrace, Freya’s unwavering answer—it

called the bodyguard nearby, telling him to hustle over. The

Freya eased him into the car and told the driver to

an hour, Freya and Kristian sat in the car, the remote countryside crawling by as they wound through

hour passed before the car finally rolled into the city, the clock just ticking past

a call from Lawrence. “I’m in Alerith,” Lawrence said, cutting to the chase the moment she picked up. “Where are you? Is Kristian holding up

his face pale as a ghost, and she kept the earlier chaos under wraps. “Yeah,

supposed to have gone down with Kristian? How was he