Chapter 2269

The white roses were now stained with crimson drops of blood.

"Let's end this." A few simple words, spoken so softly, shattered Asher's ironclad heart, leaving it in pieces too broken to even look at.

"Arnold... I won't let you leave me!" Asher trembled from head to toe. A storm unlike any other was raging in his usually composed eyes. "I know who I love! You were never anyone's substitute! Arnold. Don't leave me... I won't let you leave me!"

Asher was terrified, more than he had ever been.

Tears flowed as he begged, then he turned desperate, doing whatever he could to keep Arnold. He would try anything and accept anything, as long as the person he loved did not leave him again.

Asher had barely survived the first time. A second time would drive him to madness.

Asher's breath grew harsh, his reddened eyes filled with obsession. He opened his arms, desperate to embrace the man who was falling apart in front of him. As he leaned in, a sharp pain tore through his left eye. "Don't touch me!"

Arnold, overwhelmed and out of control, had grabbed another rose, its sharp stem slashing across Asher's left eye.

Luckily, Asher had closed his eyes just a second before, or the rose stem would have cut his eyeball, possibly even blinding him.

running across Asher's eye. For a moment, the sight pulled him

for him. But he forced himself to hold back. With a hoarse voice,

his pale face, but he pulled Arnold close with an almost savage

me that you

was hollow as he allowed himself to be held. The warmth from Asher's embrace was now completely gone. "I admit it, I still

I was playing the role of someone else every day by your side. Your love for me has lost the purity it once had.

though his voice broke. "You and him... You were an enviable pair. It's

Asher's body stiffened.

Asher. Let's

Steven arrived, Arnold was

remained kneeling, his back hunched, casting a lonely

sank, and she took a step back, overwhelmed by

but he looked like a

Bella, what happened between Mr. Thompson and Dr. Larson?" Steven had asked her all the way there, but she had

alongside Asher for years and

steadied herself. "Steve, wait outside. I

nodded, stepping outside to

She kneeled beside him, gathering the scattered roses one by one. When she picked up a card, she saw the heartfelt

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