When Adrian was brought into my room, he was so thin that his filthy suit hung from his frame.
The moment he saw me sitting beside the window, his eyes turned red.
"Are your wounds any better?"
"Don't pretend you care," I replied coldly.
He knelt before me.
The Adrian I had once known never bowed to anyone. During the hardest days of building the company, he would rather sell his car than show weakness to an investor. Now he was on his knees in front of me, but I felt nothing.
"Lia, I regret it every day. If I had left just one doctor with you, we never would have ended up here."
"It wasn't only that day."
"I know." His tears fell onto the backs of his hands. "The car accident, North Star, everything Cecilia did—it's all my fault. But I truly loved you once."
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