He Never Loved Me Until the Day I Finally Left Him novel Chapter 396

Despite having practically no strength left in her body.

Under these crushing circumstances, she forced herself to finish everything she needed to say.

"I used to think that no matter who tried to drive me away, I would never leave. I believed that as long as I fiercely guarded my love, the clouds would eventually part and I'd see the light."

"But now, I'm just so tired. I don't want this love anymore. I'm done holding on."

Having spoken her piece, she fell silent.

Sebastian didn't say a word either.

Their gazes clashed in the heavy, charged air of the hospital room.

Neither made a move to shatter the standoff.

But his prolonged silence sparked a flicker of surprise in her.

She hadn't expected him to hold his tongue.

A sudden thought crossed her mind.

A fragile sliver of hope reignited in her eyes as she looked at him again.

"Do you believe me now?" she asked.

Did he believe that she hadn't laid a finger on Janetta Ramirez?

That Janetta had been the one to orchestrate the entire provocation?

But faced with her desperate question, he offered absolutely no response.

She immediately let out a hollow, self-deprecating laugh.

Why on earth would he believe her?

If he was going to believe her, he wouldn't have waited until now.

His heart belonged entirely to Janetta, not her.

She lowered her eyes, her demeanor fading into an unsettling quiet.

Because she knew the truth: Janetta wanted her cornea.

If Sebastian needed her to cooperate, there would inevitably be a twisted exchange of conditions.

If she surrendered her cornea...

How could she possibly take her daughter away?

She would be a blind, broken shell of a person.

Heh—

The thought only deepened the suffocating wave of despair crashing over her.

Sebastian knew exactly what she was referring to regarding the attempted murder.

He didn't answer.

Because every single piece of evidence unequivocally pointed to her.

He had ordered Carter Miles to dig deeper, but they found absolutely nothing new.

The security footage only captured that one damning angle.

Yet the closer the end approached, the more fiercely he resisted it.

His mind was locked in an endless, brutal tug-of-war.

Confronted with her direct question, he found himself utterly incapable of forming an answer.

Ultimately, they just stared at each other in suffocating silence.

She let out a faint, airy chuckle—a sound born of pure exhaustion and total surrender.

This outcome was entirely predictable.

"Can you at least leave me one cornea?" she asked quietly. "At the very least, I want to be able to see my daughter."

His jaw clenched tight.

He had no idea how to explain the cruel truth to her.

Only one of her corneas was viable to begin with, and even that one was now severely infected.

She didn't seem to care about his suffocating silence.

She just kept her hollow gaze fixed on him.

"Sebastian, we loathe each other to our very marrow. So isn't this the perfect ending?" Her voice was terrifyingly calm.

"Let each other go. Erase each other from our lives. You walk your sunlit path, and I'll navigate my broken bridge. Isn't this exactly what you've always wanted?"

"You can do absolutely everything for Janetta, and of course, you can't bear to see her suffer, right?"

She spoke the words with devastating lightness.