He Gave Her Strawberries, Gave Me Hives (Ford and Sylvia) novel Chapter 196

Chapter 27

The other thugs saw this and swarmed him, their clubs raining down on Theodore like hailstones.

He was beaten bloody, but he stood like a wall, stubbornly shielding Evelyn, absorbing every single blow with his body.

In the chaos, one of the thugs pulled out a dagger. A glint of cold steel flashed as he lunged toward Evelyn.

‘Look out!”

Theodore’s pupils contracted. Without a second thought, he used the last of his strength to shove Evelyn aside, taking the full force of the dagger in his own

abdomen.

Ugh!”

Theodore let out a muffled grunt as warm blood instantly gushed out. He looked down at the dagger buried in his body, then up at Evelyn, whom he had pushed to safety. A twisted, almost relieved smile appeared on his lips.

Evelyn… this time… I finally… protected you first…”

He finished speaking, his voice barely a whisper, then his body swayed and he collapsed heavily into a pool of his own blood.

ust then, the other bodyguards from the villa and the local police, who had been alerted, finally arrived. Seeing they were outmatched, the thugs quickly umped into their vans and fled.

The scene was chaotic..

velyn stood frozen, looking at Theodore lying in a pool of blood, barely breathing. She saw the crisscrossing wounds on his body and the shocking stab vound, saw how even in unconsciousness, his brow was furrowed as if in great pain…

Her heart, uncontrollably, gave a hard thud.

he image of this man, dying after taking a knife for her, overlapped and tore apart from the memory of the man who had coldly ordered a herd of horses to rample her… A deeply complex emotion, one she couldn’t even name, shot through her like a faint electric current.

ut it was only for a moment.

When Adrian rushed to her side, anxiously asking if she was hurt, Evelyn had already quickly regained her composure.

he looked at Theodore being lifted onto a stretcher by the paramedics, her eyes still cold, and said to Adrian, as if also speaking to herself.

Call an ambulance. Get him to a hospital.”

hen she paused, and her voice, without a ripple of emotion, added a final sentence, severing any possible connection.

I don’t owe him anything.”

With that, she turned away, pushing the frightened but unharmed Daniel, and, under the protection of the bodyguards, left the bloody scene behind.

he ambulance sped away with its siren wailing, carrying the barely alive Theodore.

nd Evelyn’s heart, after that one almost imperceptible flutter, returned to its cold silence.

ome wounds are like brands seared into the bone, they cannot be easily erased by a single act of sacrifice.

‘ears flowed by like water, silently washing away the traces of the past.

n the blink of an eye, several years had passed.

the CEO’s office on the top floor of the Ashworth Corporation headquarters, the sprawling city skyline stretched out beyond the massive floor to ceiling

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Chapter 27

windows.

Evelyn stood by the window, dressed in a sharply tailored custom suit that accentuated her increasingly poised and capable figure.

Her gaze was calm and sharp, the last traces of youth gone from her features, replaced by the composed authority of someone long accustomed to being in

charge.

she was no longer the fragile woman of the past who needed to depend on others, who was insecure in love.

During the difficult years when Daniel was in a coma and the Ashworth family faced internal turmoil, she, with her extraordinary courage, unwavering >erseverance, and ever–sharpening business skills, and with Adrian’s full support, had stabilized Ashworth Corporation step by step, leading the company to xplore new markets and achieve growth against all odds.

she had become the de facto leader of Ashworth Corporation, renowned in the business world and hailed as the “Iron Rose“.

Even more astonishingly, thanks to her years of unwavering dedication and meticulous care, hiring the world’s top medical teams and using the most advanced reatments, Daniel Ashworth–the man who countless doctors had said had little hope of ever waking up–had actually created a medical miracle and gradually egained consciousness: