Chapter 25
Brenton was in a coma for a whole week, and the first thing he asked when he woke up was how long Crystal had been with him.
But asked about Leanna’s situation.
Upon learning that the person he had saved was not Leanna, who had already escaped, he was first shocked, then dazed, and finally collapsed back onto the bed as if all his strength had been drained. However, a hint of relief appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The smile made Crystal’s eyes ache on the side, and also strengthened her determination to medicate him.
After hearing that Leanna was also in this hospital, Brenton couldn’t care less about his own injuries and forced himself out of bed to go see her.
This time. Crystal did not stop him again, she just watched him leave silently.
In my mind, the scene of the fire that happened before came to mind.
After hearing that Brenton had rushed into the fire alone to save Leanna, Crystal was actually more distressed than anyone else.
When she arrived at the scene of the fire, Brenton had already gone in.
She was anxious and searched everywhere for rescuers.
But they soon discovered that not far away, Leanna, who should have been in the fire, was instead being tightly embraced and kissed by
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Ethan.
After being shocked, she felt a strange surge of anger and sadness in
her heart.
If Brenton had known that the person he was desperately trying to save had already escaped and been embraced and kissed by another man, what would his reaction have been.
Just as she was about to go find them, Ethan saw her first. After he calmed Leanna in his arms and put her in the car, he turned and walked towards her, saying he wanted to work with her.
The purpose was to make Brenton completely give up on Leanna.
And Crystal agreed.
And the first step was to make Brenton hear Leanna say to him that she was completely done with him, and would never look back again.
Sure enough, as Brenton wheeled himself to the door of Leanna’s hospital room and was about to knock, he heard Ethan inside mentioning him.
“Leanna, there’s something I want to tell you… It’s about Brenton.”
Suddenly, outside the door, Brenton’s breath caught, and even his outstretched hand froze in midair.
He hadn’t appeared in front of Leanna for a long time, and he didn’t know what her reaction to him would be now.
Was it disgust, or something else.
But Leanna’s voice coming from behind the door was unusually calm: “He’s fine, why do you want to bring him up?”
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Just a few words made his heart skip a beat, then a piercing pain spread throughout his body.
Is she unwilling to even mention him now?
The conversation inside continued, with Leanna’s tone remaining calm from start to finish, as if she were telling someone else’s story.
“I have said that from the moment I was willing to marry you, he has nothing to do with me anymore, and Brenton is already dead to me in that car accident. Everything that followed can be considered as my punishment for being blind. Now I have opened my eyes and will no longer pay attention to anything related to him. I just want to live well with you in the present.”
“Then you didn’t hate him anymore?”
“Huh, why should I argue with a dead person?”
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In just a few short sentences, Brenton’s already shaky heart was completely shattered, falling to the ground in pieces that could never be put back together.
His face pale, he closed his eyes at this moment, sitting in the wheelchair with hands clasped tightly, the protruding white knuckles showing the strain, resembling a silent sculpture.
The pitch–black room was filled with a strong smell of alcohol.
Brenton sat slumped on the ground, his eyes unfocused, swaying the wine glass in his hand, with several toppled wine bottles at his feet.
He poured wine into his mouth while shouting Leanna’s name, tears of bitter regret mixed with wine flowed into his throat, bitterness like
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dense needles piercing his whole body, making him gasp for breath.
He could no longer support himself and suddenly fell to the ground.
“Dong!”
In the moment when Brenton fell to the ground, the shattered bottle splashed alcohol, blurring his eyes.
In a daze, he seemed to see Leanna slowly pushing open the door and walking towards him, just like they had just gotten married, sweetly calling his name and hugging him tightly.
He thought he was dreaming, so he completely let himself go.
He suddenly pulled her into his arms and kissed her on the lips, but tasted bitterness in his mouth.
The mind, filled with alcohol, became increasingly confused.
Brenton thought she was crying, so he nervously moved his mouth to the corner of her eye and kissed away her tears, then gently comforted her.
“Be good, don’t cry, I’m here…”
In the cool night, rain began to fall gently.
The evening breeze brushed past, and the sound of rain grew louder, gradually masking the man’s groans and the woman’s moans inside the house.
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