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-

guinea pig for his

swapped my medication with Eloise's experimental drug. causing my brain hemorrhage. Now he entrusted my

"If

know your life is in danger." Antonio looked at me

to stay calm but

to wait for other doctors. Was I really going to die in the hands of my

persuaded him to

not happy about it, but

he was going to do everything

name of her precious Eloise would be

the operating room, Antonio shot me a wicked smirk. It made me feel like

the anesthetic

sway out from

Antoni

She positioned herself as

lead surgeon,

pure fear washed

like

to me, "Don't worry. I may not be

gently wrapped his arm around her waist and said

slipped into unconsciousness and had no idea what would come next. Would

I had

not feel any

through my eyes, and all I was able to see had no sense but it was full

the drug I was given

and in between confusion and panic, I also felt sad and angry at

wasn't until I heard a nurse repeatedly reciting my vital signs and felt someone shaking me that I began to wake