The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 443

Her eyes were dead and hollow, reflecting absolutely none of the light in the room.

Tell the family?

The family.

The word swirled in her mind, sending a sharp, stabbing pain through her chest.

The Xavier Residence had been cordoned off by the courts, and all their assets had been frozen by the banks. Her father's heart had stopped in the ICU, and her mother's body was a mangled mess on the pavement.

They had no family left.

In this entire world, it was just the two of them now—siblings burdened with blood debts and murders they could never repay, lingering on like two walking corpses.

Tell Gideon?

A bitter, self-deprecating smile touched Nora's lips.

If Gideon had known she was pregnant, blinded by his extreme hatred and his absolute conviction that she had killed his sister, it was far more likely he would have personally handed her a bowl of abortifacient.

Or perhaps he would have found an even crueler way to erase the child carrying her blood from existence, using it as a sacrifice to appease Giselle's spirit.

How could she have dared to speak a word of it?

All she could do was hide it desperately, trying to use whatever pathetic ounce of strength she had left to protect her baby.

In the end, she couldn't protect a single thing.

Perhaps the child choosing to leave before fully arriving in this brutal world was the kindest mercy of all. At least it wouldn't have to suffer alongside her.

The door to the hospital room was wide open.

Two of Gideon's bodyguards stood like statues, flanking the doorway.

"Where is Gideon?"

As the name left her lips, she felt nothing in her chest. The long-standing love she once had, the violent hatred that had followed—it was all gone, replaced by a barren wasteland of silence.

Nathan looked up, his red-rimmed eyes fixing on his sister. His hands maintained a death grip on the bed rail, baffled as to why she would ask for the man who had driven their family to utter ruin at a time like this.

The bodyguards stood tall and stoic, their expressions hard, offering no response.

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