The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 517 A Shattered Promise

Lily’s smile froze, the joy on her face slowly hardening into ice.

She truly loved children.

To have once been told she could never conceive, only to now be carrying two lives at once- her heart had been brimming with delight.

She had been reveling in James’s warm embrace, glowing with happiness, when John’s crazed outburst cut through the moment like filth splattering across sunlight. It was foul, maddening, utterly ruinous.

Lifting her face from James’s chest, she turned with cold disdain toward him. “John, this happens to be a hospital. If you’re sick, hurry up and get treated. Stop acting like a rabid dog every time you appear.”

“James is my boyfriend–the man I love with all my heart. So what if I give him twins? Even if I bore him triplets, quintuplets, ten children–it’s none of your business!”

“Lily!”

Hearing her say again that James was her true love, hearing her talk of giving him ten children, John’s eyes all but burst with red, his chest twisting with agony until he bent over in pain.

He couldn’t bear it.

When they had once been together, she had nestled in his arms, speaking of their future. She had told him time and again she wanted to give him two children–best of all, a boy and a girl, to make a perfect “family.”

She had promised him. Promised.

But now, their children had never come to be, and instead she was carrying twins for James.

The betrayal gutted him.

a long time before a broken, rasping voice escaped, dry as a

you’d only ever have children with me. You can’t go back on your word. Bob, Dawn… are you really abandoning

forehead throbbed with black

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a time, when she had loved John with all her heart, she had spoken those dreams aloud, even

hopeful, imagining a happy little home with him, filled

sweetness.

betrayal, hearing him bring it up now only made

someone depends on

caught

him inwardly

to provoke James’s jealousy, as if he wanted James to smother

did he want

slaughtered his entire family

I have–he is the only one for me in this life.

me!”

every word she spoke,

hurt her again and again for Elsa’s sake, and he regretted it

guilt, he told himself. His heart had always belonged to Lily. He had truly

“Lily…”

at him, her hand in James’s as she prepared to leave, John panicked and

the diamond ring he had once ripped from Elsa’s hand. Dropping to one knee, he offered it

Elsa’s finger. But I’ve taken it back. I don’t care that you’re carrying James’s twins–I’ll accept it. Please, just give me one last chance. Let’s start over. Elsa lied to me–she never had cancer, her suffering abroad wasn’t my