One of the conditions was that if you ever fell for someone else, the promise would become void. Can you honestly say you never had feelings for Sophie? Can you say that when you kissed her, you remembered our agreement?”
Ethan’s face slowly turned pale.[]
He collapsed on the terrace, his hands pulling at his hair, completely falling into an abyss of:
regret and pain.[]
I slowly stood up, then turned around and stopped looking at him.]
When I turned, I looked straight into another pair of eyes.]
Chapter 10
Marcus had dragged himself upstairs on his swollen leg, and I had no idea how long he’d been standing there.
Even though I knew laughing in this situation would be inappropriate, I couldn’t help myself.]
His face was still cold, like he’d come to collect a debt.]]
I looked down at the shadows on the ground, then looked up at the sky, my voice full of relief.
“Ethan, I don’t love you anymore. This time, whether you jump or not, that’s my answer. If you insist on threatening me with death, then I can only tell you–I have no
e.“0 obligation to be responsible for your life. Whether you live or die is your choice, and it has nothing to do with me.”
After saying that, I didn’t linger for a moment. Without looking back, I walked over to Marcus’s side.
Watching my figure slowly disappear in the distance, Ethan knew he had lost.
Not today, not on the wedding day, but on that drunken night.[]
If he could turn back time to that day, he would have smashed all those bottles and gotten on a plane to Italy with a ring in his pocket.
But there are no “what–ifs” in this world.[]
And he had no way back.
Ethan spread his arms wide and fell backward.[]
Like a moth trapped in a cage, finally free.
Flying toward the flame he was destined to sacrifice himself for.
The moment Ethan fell, Mrs. Blackwood had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital with him.[]
After a day and night of emergency treatment, the final result was one death and one injury.[]
The old lady died from her heart attack, and Ethan broke his back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
The few remaining Blackwood relatives, upon receiving the news, immediately rushed to the company to scheme about dividing up the massive family fortune.
The only one waiting outside the operating room was Sophie.
Dragging her extremely weak body, she arranged Mrs. Blackwood’s funeral, then stayed outside the ICU for three whole months, signing sixteen critical condition notices.]
When Ethan finally woke up, the Blackwood family’s internal power struggle had just ended.]
Ethan couldn’t accept this reality and constantly tried to kill himself.
Sophie pulled out a long hospital bill and handed it to him.]
“You owe my child a life, and you’ve spent all the money you promised me. Now you want to die? What gives you the right?“]
Looking at her bloodshot eyes, Ethan couldn’t say another word.[]
That was the last time I saw them.
For the next several decades, Marcus stayed by my side.[]
In our twilight years, he held my hand and said proudly: “The smartest thing I ever did in my life was steal myself a wife.“[]
The End
