The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 115 Just Let Me

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Susan stepped out, leaving just Ethan and Lillian alone in the room.

Lillian glanced at Ethan, guilt in her eyes. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make you worry.”

Ethan pulled over a chair and sat beside her bed with a sigh. “Why did you sneak out! Do you have any idea how worried everyone was–especially Madam Susan?”

Lillian lowered her head as tears rolled down her cheeks. “I just… I can’t take the smell anymore, Ethan. You don’t know how hopeless that disinfectant makes me feel. The moment I walked into this hospital, it felt like the whole world shut down. I can’t feel the sun. It’s like I’m cut off from everything. I don’t want to stay here. I just can’t

Only someone who’d been seriously ill–who’d spent long stretches confined to a hospital room–could understand how hopeless that felt.

Lillian’s life hadn’t been easy to begin with.

She didn’t want Stell:

Stella to have it good… But the truth was, she wasn’t doing any better herself

Hearing her break down, Ethan’s brow tightened. “Even so, you can’t just run off like that.”

“What choice did 1 have? Would you have let me leave! Of course not, she snapped.

“You’re in no condition right now. Even if you do leave, we have to prep everything. The team, the equipment–everything has to be ready”

had to be in place. That was why Ethan had been trying to buy Verdant Villa. Lillian’s current care involved almost twenty medical staff. The estate was big enough to hold them

think I’ll ever make it out of here? That I’ll just… die

Ethan snapped, his voice low

Lillian went quiet immediately.

Her Eyes welled

and Ethan’s

even more. He sighed, reached over, and

body began to

back the pain in his chest. “It’s okay. Once you’re better, it’ll

she asked, her voice barely

it started falling out from illness, it was like a warning sign

scared,” she

Ethan said nothing

leave the hospital,” she said, broken. She never mentioned

her

a quiet breath and gently pulled her

you out. Soon.”

“Ethan ”

he said “I have you discharged within

10:12 AM c

Let

for the first time in days, she felt

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just