Mr. Fake-Mute's Love Game Ended When I Stopped Playing the Fool novel Chapter 103

Chapter 9

Carter pulled me into his arms. Protective. Possessive. He gently wiped away my tears.

Don’t cry.”

He looked down at Lucas. Voice dripping with authority. “She’s mine now.”

ucas’s face twitched violently. He stumbled to his feet. Pointed at Carter in disbelief. “I thought you were my bro! And you’re stealing my girl?!”

Carter smirked. “You treated Charlie like a bro too. Didn’t stop you from fucking her, did it? Don’t insult the word brother.”

it the mention of Charlie. Lucas’s face twisted. All the humiliation he’d endured these past weeks came flooding back. He swung at Carter.

arter dodged easily. Flipped Lucas over his shoulder. Slammed him to the ground.

ucas groaned in pain. Looked up at me desperately. Met only my icy stare.

You didn’t cherish what you had. Now you regret losing it. Too late.”

arter tightened his arm around me. Twisted the knife deeper. “Don’t forget–you’re the one who pushed Emily into my arms in the first place.”

acas scrambled to explain. “Emily, that was all Charlie’s idea! I was forced into it!”

ame old shit. After twenty–something years, he still didn’t know what responsibility meant

Ve didn’t waste another word on him. Just turned and drove away.

fter that Lucas disappeared from our lives completely.

heard Charlie wanted to fly to Thailand for gender reassignment surgery. To turn back into a woman.

ut she couldn’t afford the procedure. So she went to Lucas for money.

le refused. Charlie held a grudge. Stole his phone and maxed out every loan app she could find.

by the time debt collectors showed up at Lucas’s door, Charlie had already taken the money and fled the country.

o pay off the debt. Lucas sold one of his kidneys. But the back–alley clinic used unsterilized equipment. He contracted HIV. Three months later, he was dead,

is for Charlie? Her name eventually showed up in an online missing persons notice.

The surgery failed. She got trafficked to Myanmar. Became a well known sex worker there.

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