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The Man Left Behind in His Own Marriage Chapter 7
Later, I learned that Serafina had nearly killed Lucian that night.His lies had done more than deceive her. They had made her protect the wrong man, hurt the right one, and drive me away without ever realizing what she was destroying. If Mirella and Viola had not pulled her off him, someone might have died in that hospital room.After that, no one spoke for a long time.Lucian sat coughing, one hand at his throat, tears on his face. Mirella and Viola were crying too, but whatever was left of their certainty had already collapsed. Serafina stood a few steps away, eyes red, looking as if she had been hollowed out from the inside.Viola was the first to break.Her voice was hoarse. “Cassian… are his arms still hurting?”As if it had only just occurred to her that I could feel pain.Mirella’s voice shook when she spoke next. “That slap… was his face still swollen? Did anyone even put ice on it?”Only a few hours had passed since the truth came out, but by then she already sounded older.S
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Viola’s slap landed hard.Lucian’s head snapped to the side, and blood quickly appeared at the corner of his mouth.He stayed frozen for a second, like he couldn’t believe it. His sister had always defended him. She had never once raised a hand to him before.Then Viola spoke, her eyes red, her voice shaking.“You killed Dad, didn’t you?”She stared at him like she was trying to see through every lie he had ever told. “You tampered with his safety line, didn’t you?”I don’t know whether she was crying for my father, for everything they had done to me, or for both. Maybe it was all of it at once.Mirella stepped forward next and slapped Lucian even harder.“You lied for all these years,” she said, her voice cracking with rage. “And because of you, we drove Cassian to this. Lucian, how could you be this vicious?”For the first time, real panic showed on his face.He clearly hadn’t expected me to keep evidence. He had expected me to swallow the truth the way I had swallowed everything els
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Later, I found out what happened after I left that night.Serafina was still at the hospital when it hit her. She had been pouring herself a glass of water when a sudden unease ran through her so sharply that her hand jerked. The glass slipped from her fingers and shattered across the floor.Lucian looked up at once and reached for her hand, concern already on his face. “What happened? Did you burn yourself?”Serafina said she was fine, but something in her expression had changed. Her eyes were restless, unsettled. She took out her phone right away and called me.Once.Then again.Then a third time.I didn’t answer any of them.By then, I was already making preparations to leave.Lucian noticed her distraction immediately. He caught her hand and told her softly that he was afraid to stay in the hospital alone. Mirella and Viola had stepped out not long before, and after only a brief hesitation, Serafina stayed.But her mind was no longer in that room.Every passing minute wore on her.
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It was still dark when the bedroom door flew open.The slap came before I could even sit up.My mother stormed in and struck me across the face. “Cassian! Lucian was only trying to help you with your injuries, and you still dared to lay a hand on him? Do you have any idea how fragile he is?”My head snapped to the side. Tears spilled instantly.My cheek burned, but it was nothing compared to the dull, familiar ache in my chest.I was the one who had been hurt. I was the one Lucian had set up the night before. And still, the first thing she did was accuse me.If one day she and Viola ever learned the truth about my father’s death, would they regret what they had done to me today?“You got your father killed, and now you want to hurt your brother too?” my mother shouted. “Cassian, how can you be this vicious?”She raised her hand to hit me again.Viola, standing beside her, frowned and caught her wrist.“Mom, his arms are injured.”That stopped her, but it didn’t calm her.“Even if Lucia
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Watching Serafina act so gently with me left a bitter taste in my mouth.Maybe none of that care had ever been meant for me in the first place.I took the medicine from her and swallowed it.“Cassian, Serafina, are you awake?”The door opened before either of us answered.Lucian walked in holding a tube of frostbite ointment, smiling like he meant well.“You took a bad fall on the slope today. You’ve probably got a few spots that need treatment. I asked the doctor for this. It works fast. Let me help.”I frowned and refused on instinct.“No.”Lucian and I had never been close enough for this.His expression stiffened, then turned wounded as he looked at Serafina.“Is he still that wary of me? I’m only trying to help. I know he’s never liked me, but I don’t mean anything by it.”Serafina touched my face, her voice as soft as ever.“Lucian feels bad about staying here and disrupting things. He just wants to make it up to you. It’s only ointment. Don’t be so tense.”My throat tightened.A
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I spent the whole day in the hospital, and Serafina never came.The next morning, after handling my own discharge, I passed the VIP ward and saw the kind of scene that made pain feel physical.My mother and sister were with Lucian. One fed him fruit. The other turned on the television and picked one of his favorite comedies. Serafina stood beside his bed, speaking with his doctor, her expression grave.Then Lucian tugged at her sleeve and pointed to a box of chocolates on the table. She unwrapped one and fed it to him.I stopped walking.They looked like a family.I looked like the outsider.The sight dragged up an old memory. Years ago, Lucian and I were both hospitalized with pneumonia. My mother and sister stayed by his bed, fussing over every detail. I was left alone in a cold room down the hall. No one noticed when my lips cracked from thirst until a nurse came in and gave me water.That kind of neglect had followed me my whole life.Only after I married Serafina did I learn what
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