Chapter 2357

Chapter 2357

The hot soup soaked through his suit, scalding him, but Justin barely noticed. He leaned forward, grabbing her delicate wrist and pulling it insistently toward himself. "Let me see. Does it still hurt?"

"Let go..!" Bella struggled, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Don't move. You're still injured!" Justin's breathing deepened as his fingers tightened around her slender wrist.

Her tearful eyes glistened as she waved her bandaged hands in front of him. The sight of Bella was pitiful and absurd, yet she carried an inexplicable charm clumsy, endearing, and heartbreakingly fragile.

Memories of their past flooded Justin's mind. His gaze fixed on her, a storm brewing in his once icy eyes.

In the next instant, his mind turned blank.

His thin, dry lips, parched from too much restraint, suddenly pressed against hers.

He could feel her soft, trembling lips quivering under his. Their noses brushed against each other, and their breaths intertwined as he kissed her.

His attempt was clumsy and unrefined, showing his inexperience, like a teenager exploring love for the first time. His teeth grazed her tongue, eliciting a sting, yet she silently accepted it.

willingly. It was as if she drank every bitter medicine in the world just for this single

enveloped

sharp, explosive pain shot through Justin's temple, plunging his vision into a momentary haze. He was forced to pull

now kissed into a

clawed and shrieked within his mind. He bit down hard on his tongue, the sharp pain anchoring him. Only when he

Only then could he maintain a semblance of humanity before Bella, rather than a creature

Please?" His voice, hoarse and uneven, broke through the

broken up? You were the one who ended it. What right do you have to dictate my choices now?" Bella's voice

"What's wrong? Can't bear to see what once belonged to you now slipping into someone else's hands? Is it jealousy? Regret? Or... Do you still have feelings for

into a thin line. "We loved each other once.

toward the inside pocket of his suit, searching for the pills that were his

you don't

turned and strode toward the

just now?" Bella's voice called out suddenly,

paused, closing his eyes briefly

me," Bella said,

back, Justin

as she replayed the kiss in her mind. A wrenching pain gripped her chest. She could not discern whether that kiss stemmed from lingering love or from some primal instinct buried deep within him—a love so etched into his soul it acted of its

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