Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 40

“John!” Pamela started her act with John again. “What happened just now was an accident. Sierra probably didn’t mean any of it.

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“Accident or not, you got hurt because of her,” John said as he kept his eyes on Sierra, watching every change on her face. “She has to pay for what she did.”

Sierra understood every word he was saying. He wasn’t here to be fair. He was here to back Pamela, the same way he had once backed her no matter if she was right or wrong.

He was telling her that the price for refusing to “share her husband” was watching all that one–sided love move to someone

else.

She didn’t want the kind of love that could be passed around, anyway.

“Do you keep your word?” Sierra asked.

“I’ll keep my word,” John answered.

The second John finished, Sierra reached for the tray beside her and picked up a small surgical blade. She didn’t even blink when she sliced her own palm as skin and flesh carved open. Blood gushed out from the cut, soaking her palm in seconds.

“Miss Bell!” Dr. Smith cried out in shock.

John narrowed his eyes, looking at the blood pouring from her hand.

The girl who used to cry over a scraped knee had just carved a cut deep into her own palm without a change in her expression.

Did she really hate the idea of begging him that much?

To the point of having to be this brutal on herself?

“Is this enough blood?” Sierra let the blood run freely, rolling down from her fingertips to the floor. “If it isn’t, I can keep going until you’re satisfied.”

“Mr. Henderson! Ms. Sanders’s injuries are not serious at all! Just some scrapes…” Dr. Smith spoke quickly, worried that Sierra’s wound would become even worse. “What Ms. Bell has done is more than enough!”

Forget ten times over, this was already more than fifty times!

John felt his heart slowly sinking, his expression was darker than it had ever been.

“John was just joking with you. Why are you taking it so seriously?” Pamela cut in. “If he really didn’t want Dr. Smith treating your mom, he would have had her transferred a long time ago.”

“A joke.” Sierra’s palm was getting more painful, but she didn’t show a trace of weakness. “That kind of joke can cost someone their life.”

Pamela looked at the man beside her on instinct.

John didn’t seem to hear a single word she said as his gaze stayed glued to Sierra’s bleeding hand and the stubborn expression he had never seen on her before.

“Mr. Henderson.” Dr. Smith braced himself. “If we don’t bandage Ms. Bell’s wound now…”

Before he could finish, John reached out and took hold of Pamela’s wrist, his eyes still on Stetta’s bleeding hand. “We’re leaving

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“What about Miss Bell’s mother?” Dr. Smith asked.

“She has paid it back.” John walked toward the door and left him one last sentence. “Treat her if you want.”

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Dr. Smith finally let out a heavy sigh of relief. He grabbed the disinfectant and bandages from the side and turned to Sierra.

“Why are you so stupid? Why would you cut yourself this deep?!”

Sierra said nothing.

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