After All the Hurt, She Chose Herself novel Chapter 228

Aria's breath hitched. "What about Sylvia?"

"If she were alive, you’d be so happy, wouldn't you? That can't happen, Aria. She couldn't live. So I pretended to faint from shock to delay the best window for rescue. But I never expected her to just… disappear."

Lilith let out a pair of low laughs.

"But back then, I told her, 'If you truly feel guilty, then you should never acknowledge your real daughter.'"

"Do you think she actually took it seriously? Treating me as her real daughter, while you… you were abandoned once again!"

Aria slowly clenched her fists.

Lilith didn't have much time left. There was no point in arguing with a dying person now.

She turned her wheelchair to leave, but before she could exit the room, Lilith ripped off her own high-flow oxygen cannula.

The heart monitor blared with a piercing alarm.

Aria’s heart skipped a beat. She lunged forward, grabbing the oxygen cannula and frantically trying to refit it.

But Lilith, with a surprising amount of strength, grabbed Aria's wrist tightly, refusing the oxygen.

"Aria, I told you. Your biggest failure is that you're too kind. Even with someone like me, you can't just stand by and watch me die."

"So let me tell you, my murderer is you. You're the one who pulled my oxygen, letting me suffocate to—"

As Lilith spoke, the strength in her hand suddenly vanished. Her eyes were wide, as if in disbelief that this was how she would go.

Aria’s expression hardened. She quickly placed the cannula on Lilith's nose, simultaneously pressing the call button and starting chest compressions.

She was a doctor.

Saving lives was her duty.

Lilith could die, but Aria had to try to save her.

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The driver brought Roxanne to the Evernight estate.

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