THE SPITEFUL BRIDE: Marry To Rival's Son novel Chapter 132

“You should go to her,” he said quietly.

Mia blinked in surprise. “But you….’

“I’ll be fine,” he interrupted, though the weight in his eyes betrayed the lie. The dark circles under them, the way his shoulders sagged when he thought she wasn’t looking – he was anything but fine.

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“She needs you more right now. She’s been alone with this for too long.”

Mia hesitated, searching his face in the dim light. She could see the exhaustion written in every line, the grief he was trying so hard to hide behind his protective instincts.

But she could also see that he meant what he said. Elena did need her, maybe more than Stefan did in this

moment.

She leaned in and kissed him again – gentle this time, almost like a promise, before slipping out from under the

covers.

The floor was cold against her bare feet as she padded across the room and out into the hallway.

The penthouse felt enormous and empty at night, their footsteps and whispered conversations echoing in ways that reminded them all that they were hiding.

Like their real lives were suspended somewhere else, waiting for them to figure out how to get back to them.

She paused outside Elena’s door, which was standing slightly ajar. Inside, the lights were off, but she could hear the quiet, muffled sound of crying.

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Not the dramatic sobs of fresh grief, but the exhausted, hopeless crying of someone who had been holding it together all day and finally had permission to fall apart.

Mia pushed the door open slowly and stepped inside. Elena was curled up on her side in the large bed, her back to the door, her shoulders shaking with each silent sob. She didn’t look up when Mia entered, but she didn’t seem surprised either.

Without saying a word, Mia climbed into bed beside her friend and pulled her into her arms. Elena melted into the embrace immediately, her face pressed against Mia’s shoulder as she finally let the tears come freely.

“What if he wakes up and doesn’t remember any of it? What if I become just a woman who claim to have been important to him?”

Mia didn’t have an answer for that, because it was a real possibility that terrified all of them. Brain injuries were unpredictable.

Memory loss could be temporary or permanent, partial or complete. The doctors had been honest about that from the beginning.

And they’d also decide that, if he remembers everything, he’d be injected.

They didn’t want to take chances, they need him to forget about his horrible past, before he met Stefan or right after he met him.

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