Even in Darkness She Chose to Rise (Tatiana and Jasper) novel Chapter 609

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Chapter 609 The Price of Pride

She immediately froze, staying perfectly still to cooperate with his movements.

From the corridor, the posture looked exactly like a lingering kiss.

“All done.” Lucas murmured, pulling back.

Tammy quickly retreated a few steps, her voice laced with immediate annoyance. “Is it strictly necessary for you to crowd me like that just to treat a laceration?”

Lucas offered a soft, serious smile, his response heavily saturated with an underlying ineaning. “Yes. It is entirely necessary.”

Otherwise, how could that person in the hallway catch every single detail?

You are utterly contemptible, Lucas. You are a conniving, pathetic wretch who can only rely on these filthy, shadow- dwelling calculations to get what he wants.

He fiercely loathed himself in the deepest recesses of his mind, yet he harbored zero regret. If a man chose to be generous and noble in his pursuit of love, he would end up with less than a beggar.

Tammy remained completely oblivious to the silent drama that had just unfolded, her entire focus anchored strictly on whether her face would retain a permanent scar. Tatiana possessed an absolute appreciation for beautiful things and frequently complimented her looks; if a hideous mark formed on her skin, what if Tatiana grew to dislike her appearance?

She would tolerate Lucas’s presence for the brief period she required his medical expertise, and the exact second her recovery was complete, she would kick him out of her life permanently.

The strategy brought a wave of quiet comfort to her chest, effectively dissolving the intense fury she had harbored toward him just moments prior. Once she discarded the chaotic tangle of her emotions, she refused to continue penalizing herself for his sake.

“I am discharging myself.”

“Absolutely not,” Lucas countered, his brows knitting together. “You need to remain unde: clinical observation for at least forty-eight hours. If a secondary concussion manifests…

She stood up directly, cutting him off without an ounce of hesitation. “I am not negotiating with you. I am handing you a unilateral directive.”

Lucas pressed his lips into a thin line, the light vanishing from his eyes.

“Tammy, I am so sorry.”

The apology had lingered on the tip of his tongue for an absolute eternity, and he had finally managed to force the words past his lips.

Tammy’s movements halted for a fraction of a second, a cold, mocking laugh escaping her throat “How incredibly rare. The great Lucas actually knows how to issue an apology.”

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I was entirely wrong, and I am profoundly sorry”

“How could someone like you ever take a mistake?”

She stepped off the clinic bed, slipped into her footwear, and closed the distance until she was standing directly in front of him. Without a single word of warning, her hand shot forward, her fingers locking brutally around his throat.

His fragile larynx was entirely trapped within hekiron grip, ready to be shattered at her whim. Lucas defensive capabilities were a joke compared to her raw martial prowess; if she resolved to end his life right then and there, it would be an effortless execution.

Yet Lucas offered zero resistance, not attempting to break her hold. He simply looked at her, his voice perfectly serene. “If taking my life will allow you to purge your fury, I accept the terms.

He closed his eyes, entirely surrendering himself to her judgment.

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Tammy’s expression darkened, her grip tightening with savage force. “Do you honestly believe I lack the nerve? No one has ever dared to play me for a fool the way you did. If I possess the power to shield you from harm, I possess the exact same power to destroy you.”

He remained silent. The absolute lack of a defense was his ultimate response.

The slender fingers squeezed tighter around his windpipe, and the agonizing sensation of suffocation slowly began to cloud his consciousness. Tammy possessed immense physical strength, and a woman who routinely wrestled alpha predators with her bare hands was far from a delicate socialite. When she chose to kill, she delivered absolute fatality.

But at the final, critical execution point, she suddenly released her grip.

“Cough! Cough! Cough! Cough…”

Lucas collapsed forward, coughing violently as he dragged massive, desperate gulps of oxygen into his starved lungs.

But before a single wave of relief could take hold of his mind her frigid voice cut through his gasping “Tatiana despises it when I take a life. I am never going to commit an action that causes her displeasure, sax stop attempting to bait me into a rage.”

The color drained from Lucas’s face instantly.

“The fact that I once threw myself in front of lethal blades to protect you was nothing more than any way youthful stupidity. But I am young, I am beautiful, and I allow myself the grace to learn from my mistakes This sudden recovery of my past does not mean I harbor a single ounce of attection for you.

Leaving him with that absolute dismissal, Tammy marched out of the clinic room with long, decisive.

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Lucas stood frozen in the center of the sterile space, looking exactly as though his very soul had been violently extracted from his flesh, leaving nothing but an empty, hollow shell staring blankh at the door.

believing that once her memory returned, everything would snap ba For years, he’d lied to himself into place. He was certain she’d come back to him

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Now, he finally understood the gravity of his mistakes. He’d sworn he’d never treat her devotion as mere background noise again.

He honestly believed he could rewrite the past and salvage the connection

But he had lost her permanently.

y utilized the absolute maximum speed of her transport to return to the mining sector.

oment Xavier caught sight of her walking through the compound gates, the crushing anxiety locked chest finally dissipated. But the second his eyes pinned the thick layers of medical dressings ped around her skull, the panic returned.

mmy, your head…”

crashed into a ditch and spent three days taking a nap in the dirt. Do you buy that story?”

Naturally, he didn’t believe a single syllable. But noting her intense reluctance to elaborate on the details. he tactfully chose to drop the matter.

“Does Tatiana know about this?”

“Shh! Keep your mouth shut! Do not breathe a single word to Tatiana about my injuries under any circumstances. It took everything I had to convince her to call off her flight and return to her estate.

Xavier let out a heavy sigh. “But is the trauma truly under control?”

“It’s nothing serious. The physician guaranteed it wouldn’t leave a single permanent scar, and the tissue would heal very quickly.”

Left with no other alternative, Xavier agreed to help her maintain the deception.

Tammy exhaled in relief, retreating to her room. She needed to be alone. Her mind was a mess, and she needed a break.

The casual, unbothered demeanor she had projected back at the clinic was nothing more than a calculated performance forced through sheer willpower. Only now, behind locked doors, did the crushing waves of exhaustion finally break through her surface.

The moment her eyelids closed, the forgotten chapters of her past and the realities of her present collided violently in her thoughts, weaving into an intricate, frustrating web that she couldn’t begin to untangle.

A sudden realization struck her, filling her with intense self-loathing

How could I have been so incredibly easy to deceive?

First, she had allowed herself be played by Lucas, only to immediately turn around and walk straight into Norman’s

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