The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 444

Hearing this, Nathan sprang to his feet, glaring at the bodyguards with fury blazing in his eyes. His fists clenched so tightly his nails bit deep into his palms.

Gideon had not only annihilated everything the Xavier family possessed, but he was now completely severing Nora's last remaining lifeline. He intended to lock her away in that gloomy estate forever, keeping her as a living corpse.

Nora listened to the bodyguard's relay of orders in complete silence, her hollow eyes returning to the ceiling.

He had pushed her to the absolute brink.

He had cut off her financial means, destroyed the career she had built with so much pride, allowed her hands to be pulverized, watched her parents die tragically, and even their only shared flesh and blood had been reduced to nothing.

She had no attachments left in this world, no bargaining chips left to trade.

And now, he was forcibly stripping her of even the right to die.

The air in the hospital room grew suffocatingly dense.

"I understand."

Nora slowly closed her eyes.

A single, scalding tear breached the corner of her dry eye.

It slid down her hollow, sunken cheek, crossing her pale skin to drop silently onto the stark white pillowcase, blooming into a dark, damp stain.

...

Since the moment her D&C concluded, Nora had been entirely compliant.

No crying, no screaming, not even a single unnecessary question.

Every day, when the nurses rolled in their carts for IV drips and bandage changes, she docilely offered her left arm.

As cold steel needles pierced her fragile veins and medication dripped steadily through the tubing into her system, she never so much as furrowed a brow.

She forced down every bite of the bland porridge and warm water brought up from the cafeteria, letting the dry food scrape down her inflamed throat into her stomach.

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