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Chapter 2

Author: Carrot
My flashback ended.

Guglielmo held Giulia's hand, his gaze filled with tenderness as he looked at her.

He said, "Thank goodness she left me back then. Otherwise, I wouldn't have met you."

So that was what he thought.

The needle marks on my arm seemed to stab straight into my heart. It was so painful that I struggled to breathe. I didn't want to stay here and watch them being affectionate with each other. This was more torturous than getting killed.

Just as I was about to leave, Giulia shoved me when Guglielmo wasn't looking.

She exclaimed, "What's wrong, Annalisa?"

I fell to the floor, and the medical reports in my hand scattered at Guglielmo's feet.

When Guglielmo saw me fall, he frowned with concern. He instinctively reached out to help me.

But Giulia stepped between us and picked up the reports first. "Chronic kidney failure... Kidney transplant waiting list… My goodness! If this is true, doesn't that mean Annalisa is dying?"

Guglielmo snorted when he heard that. "Don't tell me you think I'll fall for this and give you money just because you have some reports like these? You're still the same, always coming up with any trick you can think of to deceive me."

I knelt on the floor and looked up at Guglielmo's healthy frame. He stood there with a normal complexion, his back straight and his posture strong.

The scar that was more than four inches long around his waist had long since been erased with expensive reconstructive surgery, leaving no trace behind.

Inside that part of him was my kidney.

A faint smile tugged at the corners of my lips as I silently picked up my medical reports. "Then what do I have to do for you to be willing to give me some money, Don Raimondi?"

Giulia pretended to speak up for me innocently. "Don't be harsh on her, Guglielmo. What if it's true? You had a kidney transplant yourself back then. If you hadn't received a kidney from a kind donor, you wouldn't be here now, and we wouldn't have been able to get engaged.

"Why don't we just take pity on Annalisa?"

Her words seemed to remind Guglielmo of the fact that I'd left him when he was seriously ill and taken all the savings we'd had at the time.

His gaze toward me grew even colder. "God won't save a heartless person. Someone like her deserves the agonizing wait before death claims her."

Guglielmo took Giulia's hand and turned away. When he couldn't see, she looked back at me with the smug smirk of a winner.

I picked up the medical reports that were now covered in footprints.

A sudden, excruciating pain shot through the old scar on my side, where my kidney had been removed.

The figures of Guglielmo and Giulia walking away gradually blurred before my eyes.

He didn't know that the kidney inside his body that filtered his blood every day and kept him alive was mine.

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