The Lies He Told Me (Grace and Antonio)

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Part 7

My husband, Antonio Kaufman, wanted me to participate in Eloise's clinical trial for a drug she had been working on. She was his first love.

After refusing several times, he secretly swapped my medication with the experimental drug used in the trial..

At first, I didn't notice any changes, nothing was out of place, but then I started to feel the effects.

It turned out the side effects were so severe that I suffered a brain

hemorrhage. His first love, Eloise Pitts, couldn't handle it.

So the hospital demanded that Eloise stop her research, and Antonio wast asked to perform a surgery on me, but he decidedly refused.

He quickly denied it all, "The brain hemorrhage is due to the patient's personal condition. Eloise's experimental drug is irrelevant to this. I'm the patient's husband and went to the same medical school as Eloise.

I remember how Eloise pretended to be my friend when my husband introduced her to me, making me believe she had no interest in him.

Over the years, I turned a blind eye to every affectionate gesture they had for each other, and I thought it was only because of their long friendship.

Lately, I thought he was being distant with me because I did something wrong, or because he was so busy with work, but the truth was he was with her all the time.

"You're not going to operate on me?" I asked, my face half-

paralyzed, reaching out my hand at him.

Antonio slapped my hand away. "I'll leave it to Eloise. It will provide the final data for her thesis."

His words woke me to the harsh reality-

was just a guinea pig for

medication with Eloise's experimental drug. causing my brain hemorrhage. Now he entrusted my life to Eloise, who had never performed proper surgery.

"If

refuse, you'll die. You know your life is in danger." Antonio looked at me with cold

stay calm but failed, tears streaming down my

severe to wait for other doctors. Was I really going to die in the hands of my husband's first

superior persuaded him

not happy about

to do everything he could

her precious

wicked smirk. It made me feel

anesthetic took hold,

sway out

Antoni

She positioned herself as

lead surgeon, and

pure fear washed

felt like

may not be as skilled as Antonio, but I've

words. I watched as Antonio gently wrapped his arm around her waist and said affectionately, "I

had no idea what would

I had

any part of my body, but I could see all

all I was able to see had no sense but it

an effect of the drug I was given to sleep?

sense anymore, and in between confusion and panic, I also felt sad and angry at my husband. How could

signs and felt someone