The Billionaire's Intern (Maya Thompson) novel Chapter 366

Chapter 166: The Warning He Couldn’t Ignore-3

His voice cracked.

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“She wrote about how much she loves me. How she’d do anything-no matter what-just to make me better again.”

He swallowed hard.

“And she wrote about that morning… how I gave her a hard time. How my words hurt her.” His jaw tightened. “She said hearing what was wrong with me hurt her three times more than it

hurt me. But what hurt the most-”

His breath faltered.

“-was that I didn’t see her sacrifices at all.”

Jamie sucked in a breath.

“That’s when it hit me. I wasn’t the victim.” He shook his head. “I was the selfish one. The

difficult one.”

He looked up, eyes shining.

“When she came home that night, I ran to her. Hugged her so tight I thought she might break.

I cried. I begged her to forgive me.”

He took a breath.

“I promised I’d go to every appointment. Take every pill. Listen to her-really listen.”

Jamie’s voice steadied, but his eyes still shone.

“She just smiled at me. A warm one.”

His lips curved faintly at the memory.

“She wiped my tears and told me she loved me-that everything she was doing was for me.”

He swallowed, emotion settling deep in his chest.

“And that was it. We were back to normal.”

A beat.

“Actually… better. Because I understood her more after that.”

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Silence followed, thick with understanding.

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Damien sat frozen in his chair. His stomach tightened. Every lesson, every memory, pressed down on him. He could no longer pretend this was someone else’s story.

And whether he liked it or not-he was already standing exactly where Julian once had.

Charles, who had remained quiet through it all, folded his hands loosely before him, eyes thoughtful as he watched the men around the table sit with what they’d just heard. Age had softened nothing about his presence-it had only refined it.

At last, he spoke.

“You know,” he said calmly, “men often think strength in love means standing in front of a woman-shield raised, sword drawn, ready to fight the world for her.”

His gaze moved, slow and deliberate, until it landed on Damien.

“There are moments when that’s true,” Charles continued. “Danger. War. Threats that cannot be reasoned with.”

A pause.

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