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Declan suddenly stood up, yanked Nancy out of the hospital room, and
threw bor to th
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threw her to the cold, hard floor of the
hallway.
His face was twisted with rage, grief, and something else–guilt.
He slapped her. Hard.
“You did this on purpose, didn’t you?” he shouted, his voice shaking. “Tell me the truth! You planned it, didn’t you?”
Nancy was already trembling, her face pale, makeup streaked with tears. She scrambled back, hands raised in fear.
“No! Declan, I swear–I just wanted to scare her a little! I didn’t mean for things to go that far. I didn’t know it’d get this serious–I didn’t!”
He didn’t care. He grabbed a fistful. of her hair and slammed her into the
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wall, his hand wrapping around her throat like a vice. His eyes burned
with fury.
“It’s all you! You manipulative, twisted bitch! If it weren’t for you, Lena
wouldn’t be like this. She wouldn’t be
broken, blind, and scarred because of
me! You made me hurt her. You made
me take her eyes.”
As if that excused him.
As if he wasn’t the one who did it with
his own damn hands.
He screamed like an animal,
pretending to be the noble avenger, trying to wash the blood off his own hands by soaking Nancy in it.
“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you for what you
did to her!”
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I listened from the room, expression blank. It was all a performance.
Declan was always excellent at
playing the victim, the tragic hero in
his own warped story.
And just like that, he let her go.
He rushed back into the room and fell to his knees beside my stretcher. “Babe, please… she’s pregnant. The baby’s innocent. I swear to you, once she gives birth, I’ll get revenge for
you. I’ll cut her out of my life forever. I promise.”
Lies. Every word was a lie, but I didn’t confront him. Not yet. Not until I was strong enough to end it all.
My voice was hoarse, my throat raw, but I forced the words out. “Give…
me… my eyes… back.”
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He took it as a sign of compromise. Fool. He scrambled to agree, not
sparing Nancy a glance as she sat sobbing nearby, forgotten and
discarded–for now.
The next day, they wheeled both of us
into the operating room.
And that’s when her mask dropped.
Nancy leaned close as we were prepped for surgery, her voice low,
venomous.
“Don’t think you’ve won, Lena Harrington. Don’t get too happy. He’s only pretending for your sake. Declan told me himself–he won’t let me go
blind. He said he’d pay whatever it takes to fix my eyes.”
She smirked, her voice dripping with smug satisfaction. “You, though?
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You’re a cripple now. A broken woman used and tossed away. Once I give him his child, I’ll be Mrs. Rhodes, not you.”
I didn’t even blink.
Her words didn’t hurt me. Not
anymore. I had already seen through both of them–Declan’s greed and her
cruelty.
Let them cling to their delusions. Soon, I’d destroy them both.
Once my body healed, I’d make sure they paid. Every last one of them.
After the surgery, I could see again.
And the first thing I saw was Declan sitting beside my bed, his eyes
swollen from crying. He looked
exactly like he used to when I was sick
and he played the doting husband.
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But everything else had changed. The love I thought would last forever
had curdled into something rotten.
Poisonous. Disgusting.
I turned my head away. I couldn’t
stand to look at him.
He sighed heavily, rubbing his face. “Don’t worry, Babe. I’ll make it right. Nancy made you infertile, so we’ll raise her baby together. It’ll be like
ours.”
I stared at him, my voice flat. “Should I say thank you?”
“I’m lying in this bed, shattered. Who do you think is to blame?”
He froze.
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Then, as it on cue, he slapped himself.
Once. Twice. Again.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. That was
stupid—I didn’t mean it. I swear, I’ll never say something like that again. Once you’re well, you can do whatever you want. I’ll listen. I’ll accept whatever you decide.”
His cheeks turned red and puffy, but I
didn’t stop him. I watched, satisfied.
This was nothing compared to what I
had suffered.
Declan never left the hospital during my recovery. He played the perfect caretaker–feeding me, cleaning for me, staying up all night when I had nightmares.
Was he doing it out of guilt? Or just to keep me close so I wouldn’t go after Nancy and his precious child?
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One afternoon, I opened my phone and found a video from Nancy.
She was flaunting her new life like a queen–filming from the luxury villa Declan bought her, her voice sugary sweet as she showed off the endless
supplements, her private chef, live–in
doctor, and round–the–clock driver.
She was glowing.
She knew I’d watch. That’s why she
sent it. To remind me who still had
Declan’s heart.
In front of me, he acted like he
despised her. Behind my back, he
treated her like a goddess.
Meanwhile, he sat in my room,
clumsily peeling an apple, the blade
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I watched him quietly.
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And all I could think was: I’m still the
one suffering.
