Please Come Back, My Love novel Chapter 384

Chapter 384

Lucas POV

I sat in that plastic chair, my hands still tacky with Sophia’s blood, and stared at the surgical ward doors. Nurses passed by, doctors consulted in low voices. the overhead intercom called codes I didn’t understand. None of it registered.

All I could see was Sophia’s face as she fell. The moment of terrible understanding in her eyes when she realized what Claire had done. The way her hands had moved instinctively to protect our child even as her body slammed to concrete,

She’d chosen the baby over herself.

And I’d failed them both.

This was worse than death, Worse than those years after my family’s bankruptcy when I’d lived on the edge of a knife, making deals with people who’d just as soon kill me as look at me. At least then, I’d only had myself to lose.

“Mr. Reynolds?”

I looked up to find Adrian standing over me, his expression carefully neutral. He’d changed into a fresh suit, all traces of the earlier chaos erased except for

the tension around his eyes.

“The police are here,” he said quietly. “They want to speak with you about the incident/”

“Where’s Claire?”

“Security has her in a conference room downstairs. She’s ” He paused, choosing his words carefully. “She’s asking to see you.”

A laugh escaped me, bitter and sharp. “I bet she is.”

“Sir, there’s something else you should know.” Adrian’s voice dropped even lower. “Miss Vanderbilt has been calling her family s lawyers. They re alread talking about self defense, about Miss Cruz being the aggressor–

“She pushed her.” The words came out through clenched teeth. “I saw Claire standing in that doorway without a scratch on her while Sophia- copken ? finish. Couldn’t force myself to describe what I’d seen.

I know, sir. But without witnesses, it becomes a matter of he said, she said. Adrian pulled out his phone, showing me a However, the hospital’s stairwell cameras caught everything.”

1 Game from security ltage.

I grabbed the phone, my hands shaking as I enlarged the image. There-Claire and Sophia at the top of the stairs, their body language agresyper Cakes hand reaching out, hooking around Sophia’s ankle as she turned. The deliberate shift of weight that sent Sophia tumbling backpard while Clair Lough

herself on the doorframe.

It was all there Every calculated second of it

Send this to the police. I said, my voice steady for the first time since I’d suen Sophia fall. And make wang saw las vey get a gy

within the hou.

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het baby

11:20 am PTM

Chapter 384-

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rage that swept through me was cold and absolute. “She’s lying.”

“Sir?”

“She’s lying.” I stood, my legs steadier now, fueled by pure fury. “I never even slept with her. How the hell could she be pregnant with my child? This is tu

another manipulation.”

“Understood. Adrian made a note on his phone. “I’ll have our medical team verify her claims.”

Footsteps echoed down the corridor-heels clicking against linoleum with the kind of desperate urgency that made my jaw clench.

Claire appeared, flanked by two security guards who looked deeply uncomfortable with their assignment: Her carefully applied makeup way smudged now, mascara tracking down her cheeks in artful streaks.

“Lucas.” She tried to move toward me, but the guards held her back. “Lucas, please, I really didn’t mean for this to happen-

“Stop talking.”

“But you have to understand, I’m your fiancée! You have to forgive me this once-

“Fiancée?” The word tasted like poison. “You think you deserve that title? With one word from me, you think you’d still be my Bancée?” I took a step closer watching her flinch. “My fiancée wouldn’t be a murderer.”

Her face went white. “What are you-we agreed to get married! You can’t just-you’re forgetting what I did for you! I saved your life!

“You did,” I agreed, my voice flat. “Seven years ago, you saved me. You gave me resources, connections, a way back into this world. I paused, letting the words sink in. “But let’s talk about what kind of resources those were, Claire. Do you want to tell everyone here how your family’s money was made? What kind of deals I had to broker, what kind of people I had to work with to climb back to where I am now?”

She opened her mouth, then closed it again.

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“That’s what I thought.” I leaned in closer, close enough to see the fear in her eyes. “I’ve spent the last seven years cleaning up your family’s messes, šarzÅR your father’s company from bankruptcy twice, burying scandals that would have destroyed your precious reputation. Whatever debt I owed you? 1 part it back in full years ago.”

“Lucas-”

‘If Sophia and her child don’t make it through this,” I continued, my voice dropping to barely above a whisper, you’ll spend the rest of your lite in MESOA And I’ll make sure you never see daylight again.”

Claire’s legs gave out. She collapsed onto the floor, her designer dress pooling around her, all pretense of composure finally shuttered. You dunt meat (905 Lucas, you can’t-

“Take her back downstairs, I told the guards. And make sure she doesn’t leave until the police active.

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