The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 468

Nora quietly let him hold her, abandoning any attempt to struggle.

Her hands hung lifelessly at her sides, her body as rigid as stone, offering him zero response.

She let out a hollow laugh in her mind.

What kind of deeply devoted act was this guy pulling?

Two years ago, he passed down orders saying he didn't care what happened to her, as long as she stayed breathing.

He treated her as a mere tool for atonement, painting her as the murderer who killed his sister.

Yet now here he was, showing up with red eyes, claiming he'd searched for her for two years and couldn't live without her.

Nora only felt a violent wave of nausea rolling through her stomach.

Did he think playing the victim would magically erase the pain of her shattered bones?

Did he think shedding a few tears would make her forget the horrific sight of her parents bleeding out, or the child she had lost in a pool of blood?

"Gideon."

Still trapped in his arms, her voice was as biting as a gale blowing straight from hell.

"Do you honestly believe that as long as you put on this pathetic display, I'm obligated to fall to my knees and forgive you?"

He stiffened instantly. He didn't let go, only buried his face deeper.

"Nora Xavier really is dead,"

she told him, articulating every word with absolute clarity.

"The Nora who chased you for ten years, the one who would gladly throw away her life for you, died in that ocean two years ago."

She felt the man's burning body heat, yet the words she spoke were enough to freeze him solid.

"What you are holding right now is nothing more than a corpse you destroyed with your own two hands."

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