The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 432

Time seemed to stretch on infinitely in that moment.

Nora's feet were nailed to the ground, her entire body frozen in place.

She stared upward, watching helplessly as the mother who had given her life—the woman who had been crying outside the old estate gates just days ago begging to see her—rapidly magnified in her vision.

The wind caught the thin fabric of her mother's jacket. Like a bird with broken wings, she plummeted straight down toward the cold, unforgiving pavement.

Bang—!

The body slammed into the ground less than twenty yards away from Nora.

The sickening crunch of shattering bones and the muffled thud of flesh hitting concrete echoed clearly in Nora's ears.

Crimson blood instantly pooled out from beneath the broken body, tracing the grooves of the cement and rapidly expanding into a horrifying, massive puddle.

"Ah—!"

Nearby patients and nurses shrieked and scattered in terror at the sudden, gruesome tragedy.

Nora's legs gave out completely, and she crashed heavily onto her knees against the hard ground.

She opened her mouth, but she couldn't make a single sound.

That faded jacket. That messy, graying hair.

It was her mother.

The woman who, just minutes ago, had told her over the phone to live on, was now a lifeless corpse shattered right in front of her.

Hospital security and emergency room doctors rushed out of the building with stretchers and trauma kits.

The doctor quickly checked the victim's vital signs, shook his head, and pulled out a white medical sheet to cover the mangled remains.

Nora stayed kneeling where she was, her eyes fixed on the ever-expanding pool of blood.

The entire world went dead silent in her ears.

The screams of bystanders, the blaring sirens, the footsteps of the bodyguards catching up to her—all of it was blocked out by a thick, impenetrable barrier.

All she could hear was the slow, heavy thumping of her own heart and the endless replay of her mother's final words.

"I'm going to be with your dad."

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