The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 5 His Heart Raced–for Lily

After John carried Elsa out, his friends all rushed to the hospital after them, eager to show concern and help.

Soon, the luxurious private room was left with only Lily and Simon.

Simon was the only heir to the Bale family, one of Capital City’s top elite lineages.

He and John had grown up like brothers, thick as thieves.

abroad. When John was cast out of the Jones family, they lost touch. It wasn’t

He’d spent the past few years until Simon returned six months ago that he found out what had happened.

Unlike John’s other friends, who dismissed Lily because they sensed John didn’t care much for her, Simon disliked Lily for a different reason: he doted on Elsa, truly saw her as a little sister.

When he was ten, he went with his father on a charity trip to the countryside and got caught in a terrible earthquake. He and Elsa were trapped in the rubble together.

He had been gravely injured, unable even to speak. If not for Elsa comforting him and encouraging him the whole time, he wouldn’t have survived until rescue.

Elsa was smart, radiant, noble–Capital City’s proud and untouchable red rose. Lily, aside from a prettier face, had nothing to compare.

“Lily, you dared to send thugs to attack Lizzy? You deserve to die.”

Lily, still staring blankly in the direction John had gone, was stunned by Simon’s voice.

Lizzy?

Clearly, Simon meant Elsa.

Funny… her childhood nickname had also been Lizzy.

Only her now–deceased loved ones and the friend trapped with her in the rubble sixteen years ago had ever called her that.

But that friend had never spoken. She never even knew his name.

The pocket watch he gave her had been stolen years ago. There was no chance they’d ever meet again.

Simon looked at her bloodied face and felt even more disgusted. To him, John being with her was rock bottom.

His anger flared. Without thinking, he picked up a glass of liquor and threw it in her face.

“Touch Lizzy again, and I’ll make your life worse than death.”

“I didn’t hurt Elsa!”

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The wound on her forehead flared with pain.

alcohol stung like acid, and her body trembled like a dead leaf in the

her feet and, with every bit of strength she had left, slapped

it again–Elsa’s word alone doesn’t

want. Without

no right to throw

“Lily!”

for half a minute

Bale family’s heir, the golden boy of Capital City. People

woman

he weren’t the type to avoid hitting women, he

gleam in his eyes. Her eyelid

feel

she didn’t regret the

with razor–sharp eyes, refusing to back

first. That slap? You earned

furious, he actually

has

He grabbed another glass.

looked scared, but still

her temple. Her pale face was a mess

eyes–those

anger, they

it was the way her eyes caught the light, but

couldn’t throw

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Elsa had been wronged. He

glass at her feet. His voice was like

near John

If you interfere again, I’ll make

out, slamming

“Freak.”

Lily muttered to herself.

it was Elsa who dumped John because he

until after their breakup

she the one

it

John

longer meant anything

was her

injury, the exhaustion–it all hit her.

drive like

her breath for a long while, then ordered a car to the hospital to treat

ER was crowded that