The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 518

"It was only after I joined the Hayes family that everything changed. You liked bland food. To please you, just so you would glance my way, I forced myself to swallow it down."

"In the past, I did everything for you. Even if you had handed me a cup of poison, as long as it came from your hands, I would have drank it without hesitation."

Nora paused, a fractured chill rippling across the deadened pools of her eyes.

"Because back then, I loved you."

Those simple words sliced open a bloody, gaping wound in both of their hearts.

"I loved you enough to trample my own preferences, my dignity, my entire self underfoot, just to cater to your every mood."

The man's breathing instantly stalled, an unbearable, twisting agony gripping the deepest depths of his heart.

His supposed understanding, the preferences he so proudly thought he knew—they were all built entirely upon her bottomless compromises and suffering.

She had stripped away everything she enjoyed, willing to swallow lethal poison just for that pitiful love that had grounded itself into the dirt.

Nora looked away, her tone completely indifferent.

"But now, I don't love you anymore."

"I don't want to drink this soup, and I'm never going to drink it again."

"So these self-righteous attempts to please me mean absolutely nothing. Stop sickening me with them."

The words 'I don't love you anymore' fluttered lightly into the dead silence of the dining room, yet they ruthlessly shattered every last ounce of hope in Gideon's eyes.

Gideon recoiled violently, looking as if his soul had just been violently ripped from his body, his towering frame swaying unsteadily.

The light in his eyes shattered inch by inch, replaced by an endless abyss of guilt, panic, and sheer helplessness.

She never liked it.

All those habits he thought he knew were merely her swallowing blood and tears to compromise and please him.

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