The Heart I Gave The Love I Lost

Chapter 5

Perhaps fate had a cruel sense of humor, arranging for me to see Alexander one last time.

before the end..

I was oddly calm about the news, gently wiping away Rachel’s tears. “Stop crying. have three months.”

. I still

I refused to spend my final months in a hospital bed. After Rachel helped me check out, I used Alexander’s “funeral money” to buy myself a nice plot of land. Ironic – I could never afford my own home while alive, but thanks to my ex–husband’s contempt, I could at least have a permanent resting place.

I even visited the funeral home to choose my own arrangements: Rachel thought I was being morbid, but it felt strangely peaceful.

Back home, Rachel sent me a link with an urgent message: “You need to see this!”

–

It was footage from that night at the gala. The video captured everything Emily kicking me, Alexander’s accusations, the wine being thrown at me as I knelt on the ground. The caption read:

ex–wife, who abandoned him during his heart condition, now

viral news. Everyone learned about the heartless ex–wife of America’s latest tech

“She d

rich? Pathetic!” “She’s not borrowing money, she’s extorting him!” “The nerve to claim she donated her heart when some

my door,

I knew exactly who was behind

was desperate to defend me, but what was the point? We had no power,

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Gave The Love I Lost

Chapter 5

believe us. They’d

Heights Building,

curved in a vicious smile. “Well, well…

you doing

he loved you? He just pitied you. Get it straight – you’re just the ex who abandoned

I met her eyes. “At

joke. “Then go tell him. See who he believes the heartless. ex–wife or the