When The Family Reads The Fake Heiress Mind

Chapter 438 He Never Abandoned You

“Winston.”

Jean finally spoke, her voice soft as she called his name.

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Winston turned suddenly. His lashes were lowered, and the moment their eyes met, Jean saw it clearly–his eyes were tinged red, the light in them dim and unfocused.

“He’s been sick for a long time…” Winston muttered through clenched teeth. “Something this serious…”

Jean looked at him, quietly understanding what he must be feeling.

“I actually knew already,” she said gently, blinking as she spoke.

“I asked Dalton before. He told me he was sick,” she sighed, her voice turning complicated, “but I didn’t know it was this kind of sickness…”

Winston pressed his lips together, silent,

His thoughts drifted back to years ago–to when he saw Dalton sitting in a wheelchair on campus.

He’d been cold, sharp–tongued, and full of scorn back then.

Looking back now, Dalton had probably been forced into that wheelchair because his condition had worsened.

watched his expression closely. She realized this might

“Winston…”

I think you

slightly at her

desperate to escape everything–he, your best friend,

promise. He never meant to abandon you. He was already sick back then. That’s why he couldn’t keep

might only drag you down. So he distanced himself. It wasn’t his choice. He didn’t leave you… he just didn’t know how

her, and when she

stayed quiet the entire

expression–blank and still, like a cold sheet of ice. But Jean noticed the subtle shift deep in

frozen surface, something

storm, building in

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stood like a statue carved from ice,

a long time, nothing

slowly, that frozen mask began to

his slender fingers against his

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years…” Winston’s voice was barely audible, rough with something close to a sob, “I kept wondering… what if he’d already been sick before

voice dipped