Billionaire, I Am Not Your Wife! novel Chapter 56

Not Giving Up Now-2

“So basically, if I survive the treatment itself, I have maybe a forty percent chance of getting actual time back.”

“Roughly, yes.”

More silence. Then: “I want to try it.

My chest tightened when I heard this as I felt relief and hope and guilt for feeling the first two as I tried to caution her. “Sedona-”

“I’m not ready to die, Cameron. I know you think I’m doing this because I’m guilty and you are guilty about that, but no. It’s not because of you, I want to do this. I know the odds are bad. I know there’s a good chance this doesn’t work or makes things worse. But I can’t just… ie here and wait for it to happen. I need to fight. Even if there is a chance that I might survive, I need to take it”

She looked at me, and her eyes were clearer than they’d been in weeks, clear of the haziness from the drugs as she held eye contact with me as she added.

“I promised you in Chicago that I wouldn’t give up, when I wanted to. I meant it then and I mean it now. I want to try the treatment, no matter how painful it is. I am already in pain right now, it can’t get worse than this.”

“Even knowing what it’ll do to you? Even knowing you’ll be so sick and there’s a real chance you won’t survive it?”

“Even then.” She squeezed my hand weakly as she tried to manage a watery smile for me before continuing.

“I survived Logan. I survived leaving Nick.

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