The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 1197

Maybe it was just his imagination, but Joshua could swear this headache was worse than any he'd had before.

Even now, fully awake, the pain throbbed relentlessly.

He reached up, almost without thinking, and his fingers brushed against a bandage wrapped around his head.

In that instant, memories came flooding back-rushing in like a tidal wave.

Joshua's mind cleared, and it all returned to him.

That stubborn illness, passed down through the Gardner family like some ancient curse etched into their very bones.

When the episodes hit, he'd lose all sense of himself. Had no idea what he was doing.

But once the haze lifted, the memories always returned. Every single thing he'd done.

Some in his family, in those lost moments, had killed the people they cared about most.

And when the reality hit them-when the memories snapped back into place-it drove them past the brink. They'd lose their minds completely, never to return.

Others, fearing that madness, had ended their own lives before it could claim them.

It seemed every head of the Gardner family was doomed to this fate.

The brighter, sharper the mind, the more likely it was to break. There were no exceptions.

hardened. Instinctively, he scanned


noticed the rain outside had stopped, though he wasn't

peaceful face beside him, bathing her in

on the mattress, head cradled in her hand. Her eyes were closed, her head nodding as she drifted in and out of sleep. Except, Joshua realized, she wasn't just nodding off-she was fast

dark circles under her eyes and the exhaustion

hadn't

the sleeping woman

passed before Stella's arm, locked in that position for so long,

but before he could, Stella's eyes fluttered open

for a moment, both were caught off

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recover. She picked up the lamp on the table a gentle voice

you

belongs to s


are

the movement and couldn't help but touch the bandage on his

mouth twitching with

at her the wrong way or

would come

can put the

Stella studied his expression.

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