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Chapter 10

作者: Shallow Teal
Leah's POV

Scott was admitted to the city hospital's intensive care unit.

The bullet tore through his abdomen. It took the surgeons five hours to pull him back from the brink of death.

I did not go to the hospital.

My attorney told me what had happened.

He cautiously asked whether I wanted to visit. I shook my head.

"Forget it."

Three days later, Scott appeared outside my gate in a wheelchair.

When he saw me step outside, relief softened his face, and one corner of his mouth lifted.

"Leah..."

I
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  • The Don Thought I Was Lying While I Was Dying   Chapter 10

    Leah's POVScott was admitted to the city hospital's intensive care unit.The bullet tore through his abdomen. It took the surgeons five hours to pull him back from the brink of death.I did not go to the hospital.My attorney told me what had happened.He cautiously asked whether I wanted to visit. I shook my head."Forget it."Three days later, Scott appeared outside my gate in a wheelchair.When he saw me step outside, relief softened his face, and one corner of his mouth lifted."Leah..."I stood in the doorway and did not let him in."I came... to beg you one more time. I know... I owe you more than I can ever repay." He looked up at me.The eyes I had once loved were now bloodshot and filled with regret.He took my hand. "After everything you suffered, ten thousand apologies would never be enough. Curse me. Hit me. I'll take it. I only ask... please let me stay beside you. Let me spend the rest of my life making it up to you..."I cut him off. "Do you remember the first time I mi

  • The Don Thought I Was Lying While I Was Dying   Chapter 9

    Leah's POVScott did not leave.He settled in town and bought the two-story house across from mine.Every time I left the house, his car followed at a distance.The town was small, and gossip traveled fast.My elderly neighbor asked conspiratorially, "Sweetheart, is that handsome man trying to win you over?"I shook my head and quietly told her I did not know him.My voice was coming back slowly.A month later, the court issued its judgment.I recovered my parents' entire estate.When my attorney called, excitement rang in his voice. "Mr. Emmons lost control in court, and the bailiffs removed him. Miss Elena cursed at the judge in open court, so she was fined for contempt."She was extremely agitated and kept making threats in the courtroom... Please be careful when you go out."I thanked him.The next day, my attorney accompanied me to the county clerk's office to complete the transfer of the estate.In the rearview mirror, the black Bentley still followed at an unhurried distance.I

  • The Don Thought I Was Lying While I Was Dying   Chapter 8

    Leah's POVI stared at the screen, my mind blank.Then I reached out and pressed the red power button on the remote.Fifty million.He was willing to spend fifty million dollars to find me, yet he had refused to give me one million to save my grandmother.I closed my eyes. The gaping wound in my chest no longer hurt.I felt nothing at all.The hospital sent a psychiatrist to evaluate me. She diagnosed me with depression and recommended comprehensive treatment.I felt nothing. I had lost everything, and living or dying made no difference to me.Even so, my body slowly recovered.The cast came off my right hand, and my ribs hurt less each day.I could even get out of bed and walk slowly.Every day, the nurse wheeled me into the garden to sit in the warm sunlight.A month later, I boarded a bus bound for a small town in the north.Before she died, my grandmother had told me she owned a small, aging house in that town. She had planned to retire there, but after she fell ill, she never retu

  • The Don Thought I Was Lying While I Was Dying   Chapter 7

    Scott's POVThe surveillance footage captured only one brief sequence: Leah, blindfolded, being dragged into a van by two men.She did not struggle.Her figure in the footage was thin as paper and barely upright.I watched it dozens of times."The van headed toward the East Bank docks." My second pointed to a red circle on the map. "A private cruise ship sailed from there that night and exploded the next morning."My nails dug into my palm.She had been bound when she called me. Her voice was hoarse, and she probably knew she would not survive.And what was I doing?I had my arm around another woman at a banquet."Can you confirm she was aboard?""Yes."I stood up and kicked the chair over. "Find Mac."That night, I led a raid on the warehouse sheltering the remnants of Mac's gang.Gunfire raged for an hour.Shrapnel tore open my left arm, but I felt no pain.I dragged a half-dead lieutenant to his feet and pressed the muzzle under his chin. "Who did it that night?"His face was bloody

  • The Don Thought I Was Lying While I Was Dying   Chapter 6

    Scott's POVThe black Bentley tore through the empty streets, the accelerator almost to the floor as I raced toward the Cullen family's hospital.I yanked the doctor on duty out of the staff lounge.I fixed him with a hard stare. "What room is Leah's grandmother in?!"The terrified doctor trembled as he searched the records.After a long moment, he ventured, "Mr. Cullen... that lady passed away several days ago.""What did you say?""We did everything we could," the doctor explained softly, as if afraid I might draw my gun at any second. "Mrs. Cullen never paid for the surgery. In the end, all we could offer was conservative care..."I stood rooted to the spot, every ounce of strength draining from my body.She had not paid for the surgery?Had she really come to beg me that night for her grandmother's surgery?And what was I doing?When I came out of the shower and saw Elena ending the call, I asked about it offhandedly.Elena smiled. "Leah says her grandmother needs surgery and wants

  • The Don Thought I Was Lying While I Was Dying   Chapter 5

    Scott's POVI regretted hanging up the instant I did it.But I could not take back what I had said.I could not believe anyone would dare kidnap Leah. She was my wife.Even so, I stood on the terrace for several minutes, clutching my phone while the wind whipped around me, unable to shake my unease.Stacks of documents and audio recordings still covered the table.Elena had brought them.The evidence claimed that Leah had secretly contacted lawyers during our second year of marriage to ask how she could divide the Cullen family's overseas assets.I rubbed my brow and took a long swallow of whiskey.The truth was, I had already decided to give in.I had planned to find her and tell her that no matter how many times she had deceived me, no matter whether she had married me for the contract, I accepted it all.I did not care about the hundred million dollars. I only wanted us to be whole again and to have a healthy baby someday.The afternoon the final divorce decree arrived, I had just r

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