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!”

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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:

CEO Alexander Morgan’s ex–wife, who abandoned him during his heart condition, now caught lying

Everyone learned about the heartless

“She d

he’s rich? Pathetic!” “She’s not borrowing money, she’s extorting him!” “The nerve to claim she donated her heart when some kind soul actually saved his life!”

up my address. People threw paint at my door, left garbage outside. I’d

I knew exactly who was

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

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us. They’d just attack her too.

a text: “Star Heights Building,

manicured hand wrapped around her coffee cup, her red lips curved in a vicious smile. “Well, well… if it isn’t the infamous

are you

“You actually think he loved you? He just pitied you. Get it straight – you’re just the ex who abandoned him. Everything he has now, we built together. I’m the one he loves.”

long silence, I met her eyes. “At least

See who he believes the heartless. ex–wife or the woman who stood by