Chapter 713 The One He Threw Away
Every moment of warmth he had pushed-away, every sincere feeling he had trampled without a second thought, had turned into the sharpest kind of pain, the kind that found you in the quiet hours and deduct
let go.
But som
and p away
changed in that fire. When he had thrown himself into those flames with from the edge, something that had been lodged deep in him seemed t ything else.
nderstand that all he truly wanted was for her to live well and be happy. That cutters g he’d been holding onto.
d come too late would simply have to remain his alone to carry.
ah situation, that enormous, destructive force he had brought into her life through his own d now been brought to its end
e best possible outcome he
in Ethan’s eyes receded as
a small nod in agreement the company. My mothe
oice took on a different st ended up ruined b e is my responsibili
hing him turn a
gave him
his own hands.
d for.
gh, settling into calm acceptance.
ad said. “You’re right.
g
her name, something heavier and more deliberate. “She
o failed her. Her father was my friend. That means her
gin facing forward, Amelia felt some of her own tension
for you. As a friend.”
held back were, I don’t want to be your friend. I never wanted
he last thread of dignified connection between them, and the was something he couldn’t quite face.
wed on his face was a quiet, bittersweet acceptance.
ake a vow he was making to himself. “From here on out, you’ll have keeps getting in your way.”
m his shoulders as he said it.
when he remembered something and turned back. “By the way about Flannah ritical condition notice. It’s probably a matter of days now. She wont be a threat
9 P p
Hc Threw Away
During her hospital stay, Amelia had visited Hannah once
She had stood on the other side of the ICU glass and looked at the woman lying in that bed.
The burns had been catastrophic. Hannah’s face was unrecognizable, the skin darkened and drawn tighr ways that erased any trace of who she had been. The damage across her body was severe and with mercy.
She lay there in absolute stillness, absorbing a degree of suffering that most people couldn’t inte without making a sound.
Whether that was exhaustion or something past feeling, Amelia couldn’t say.
But all of it had grown from seeds Hannah had planted herself.
Amelia felt no sympathy. She felt something closer to a deep, hollow sadness for the waste of it all.
If Hannah had simply accepted what Ethan had offered, if she had been content with a quiet, comfortable Life and let go of the things that were never hers to begin with, she would have been fine. Instead she was ing there waiting for an end she had built herself, piece by piece, choice by choice.
ife after the hospital settled into something outwardly calm, like the still surface of a spring pond, with an indercurrent of tension that refused to fully dissolve.
The moment Amelia was home, Mason shifted into a level of attentiveness that bordered on the protective.
le cleared most of his schedule, and he absolutely refused to let her set foot in the office.
le called Tim personally. “Starting today, all of Amelia’s work files and design drafts get organized by amanda and brought to the house. This will go on until her injuries are fully healed.”
And on this point, Lenny and Mason presented a unified front that Amelia hadn’t asked for and couldn’t Jismantle.
enny looked at her with the measured gravity of someone delivering something he’d thought through
refully. “Amelia, the fashion show timeline is tight, I understand that. But it can be pushed back Jonoring Demi’s memory matters, but not at the cost of your recovery.”
Amelia sat on the couch and looked at the two of them acting like she was accovering from something lite
reatening, and the expression on her face landed somewhere between exasperated and genuinely mused.
she held up her arm, where the marks had already faded to faint pink traces, and said with patient
gnation. “I have miner burns. I’m not incapacitated. I can still draw
fur voice took on a particular firmness when the fashion show canie up.
still hadn’s
stayed the emotional gap with Lenny, the word she owed but still wouldnt.come
bout where she had come from, had hit something in her tha
show to life the way u had never been allowed to be to give her
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