The Day I Stopped Waiting Was the Day He Started Begging novel Chapter 217

Caleb was speechless. Unable to comprehend the twisted logic of this tragic romantic, he simply gave up trying.

Outside the room, Madeline stood perfectly still, not stepping inside.

After lingering for a long moment, she silently turned to leave. Sienna, walking back, caught the whole thing.

"Madeline... you..."

Madeline's expression was completely void of emotion.

"These are York's painkillers. Could you bring them in for me? I'm not going back in there."

"It would just make Caleb awkward."

"Madeline, did you hear everything? York was just running his mouth. He..."

"It doesn't matter anymore."

"That answer means nothing to me now."

Madeline offered a quiet, peaceful smile.

For the longest time, she had obsessed over hearing the truth.

But he had never given it to her.

She had even swallowed her pride and begged for it once, only to be met with...

Madeline firmly locked those excruciating memories away.

"I won't let these things control me anymore."

Seeing Madeline so effortlessly detached, Sienna found herself completely out of words.

She remembered a quote she had read once.

When one person no longer feels any joy or pain because of their partner, the relationship is already dead and buried.

Once the love fades, even hatred and resentment become too much effort to waste.

Having handed off the medication, Madeline turned her back on the hospital entirely.

She had no desire to face York.

More accurately, she had no desire to rehash the past.

Even though history wouldn't sway her decisions anymore.

It still had the power to wreck her mood.

Therefore, turning a blind eye was the only sensible choice.

She was terrified of going soft. It was dangerously easy to make excuses for someone you once loved with everything you had.

"Madeline?"

Hunter was genuinely surprised.

"Are you sick?"

"No."