Divorce you and marry him novel Chapter 21

Chapter 21

One year later.

Nicholas sat in a wheelchair, the left leg of his trousers hanging empty-

After falling from a cliff the previous year, treatment had come too late, and it had completely necrotized.

He clutched tightly to his chest a faded old coat, one of the very few things Katherine had left behind.

His gaze was dull, lucid at times, muddled at others.

When he was clear-headed, he held on to that coat.

“Katie… I was wrong… come back… look at me…”

Most of the time, he was confused..

Holding the coat, calling out “Katie,” talking to the air, throwing things, crying and making a

scene.

Nicholas’s father, Tyshawn Padilla, had long since been made ill by him and passed away.

The Padilla family now was nothing but an empty shell, barely sustained by ancestral property.

Last autumn, for reasons no one understood, he suddenly rushed out of the house clutching that old coat and plunged headfirst into the long-neglected pond on the property.

When they pulled him out, he had swallowed water and was burning with fever, yet he hugged the soaking-wet coat and smiled foolishly: “Kație… I came to find you… look, I caught you…”

From that day on, his mind grew even less clear, improving and worsening by turns.

When it was bad, he could not even recognize people.

When it was good, he would just sit there blankly, watching the sky, the flowers, and the old coat he forever held in his arms.

Brayden stepped out from the private yacht and gently draped a light coat over her shoulders.

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“It’s windy. Be careful not to catch a chill.”

Katherine turned back and smiled at him softly.

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Brayden treated her as well as ever-so well that everyone knew the cold-faced power holder of the Rodriguez family doted on his wife to no end.

He took her traveling through the mountains and waters of Nashville and taught her how to do business and manage accounts.

He never asked about her past and never spoke of the future, choosing instead to make every present day full and warm.

That day, while she was tidying the study, she accidentally discovered a locked drawer.

The key was hanging in a conspicuous place.

After hesitating for a long time, she still opened it.

There were no gold or jewels inside, only a thick stack of drawing paper.

Every sheet was of her.

At the lower right corner of each drawing, a date was written.

Holding those drawings, she sat in the study for a long time.

That evening, when Brayden returned, she asked him, “Why… are you so good to me?”

Seeing the redness around her eyes, Brayden instantly understood what she had found.

He did not speak of the cautious, unspoken love of those years, nor of the gloom he felt when he heard she had married, much less of the near-madness with which he had searched almost the entire mountain when she fell from the cliff and went missing.

He merely reached out, gently wiped away the tear at the corner of her eye that was about to fall, smiled, and spoke in a tone as light as if he were commenting on the nice weather.

“Because when I found you at the bottom of the cliff back then, you were burning with fever and barely conscious, clutching my hand and saying, “If there is a next life, I will marry someone whose heart holds only me.””

He lowered his head and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.

“I gave you my word, so I have to keep it.”

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