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CHAPTER 24: Reclaiming What’s Hers
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The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 292: A Room With A Better View
[Alice's POV]I was dreaming of lilacs.It was always lilacs now, in any fractured, thin sleep I was able to snatch in the bustling hospital ward.The purple clusters hung heavy on the branch, the scent cloying and sweet. I saw a church I had never been to, and a dress I had never worn. There was a man whose face I couldn't see, waiting for me at the altar. In the dream, I was whole. My belly was flat, my wrists were unscarred, and my body was my own — not a battleground, not a sacrifice, not a vessel for disease and life fighting for the same territory.I would stay in the dream, if I could. But the pain always pulled me back.I woke to the beep of the monitor and the faint afternoon light filtering through the window. The room was quiet. Adam was gone. He had been here earlier. His chair empty, the impression of his weight was still visible in the cushion. I assumed he was making phone calls, arguing with Dr. Ibanez, fighting for access to my personal medical records with his usual
The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 291: Fearful Odds
[David's POV]"I want you to convince her to live,” Adam urged."And if she won't?" I countered."Then we find another way. But we can't let her die, David. Not like this. Not if we can stop it."The corridor fell quiet. Lily had gone silent, her expression shifting from theatrical concern to something sharper and more calculating as she watched us closely.I looked at Adam for a long time. Then I felt my fists unclenching, the tension in my shoulders shifting — not disappearing, but redirecting, turning from violence toward something more dangerous."Fine," I said. "You're a bastard. And I'll work with a bastard if it saves her life."---------I hadn't wanted to come to the hospital today.That was the thing that kept echoing in my mind as we stood in the corridor. My knuckles were throbbing; I could feel my heart hammering. The taste of shock and rage were still sharp on my tongue.I hadn't wanted to come to the hospital today. It was Lily's twelve-week scan. It was just a routine
The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 290: Someone Who Has Leverage
[Adam's POV]The corridor smells like antiseptic and despair.I’m standing outside Alice’s hospital room with my back pressed against the wall. I can see her through the narrow window in the door. She’s asleep. She’s exhausted from all the tests, from the sheer effort of keeping a body alive that was determined to tear itself apart from the inside.Fifteen percent.That number echoes in my skull like a death knell. It means an eighty-five percent chance of a world without Alice in it. Fifteen percent means I would probably be standing at a graveside, instead of an altar. The dream I’ve carried for a decade — the church with the lilacs, her head on my chest, a life built from the rubble of our respective disasters — would evaporate like morning dew.But I have made a promise. “Okay. Together. We fight together.”I have pledged to lead the battle with her. To stand by her side, no matter what gets thrown our way.But how did you fight an enemy that also needs a lifeline? How do you wage
The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 289: A Secret Shared
[Alice's POV]Lily was wearing a loose-fitting maternity dress. It was pale blue, cinched below the bust. The kind of dress designed to accommodate a growing belly without sacrificing style. And there was a belly. Small but visible, a gentle curve beneath the fabric that spoke of a pregnancy in its early stages. Three months, maybe. The first trimester just ending.She looked... well. That was the infuriating thing. She looked radiant. Glowing. The way pregnant women in advertisements always look. Serene and beautiful and utterly at peace with the life growing inside them. Her skin was clear, her hair was thick and shiny, her eyes were bright with a vitality that I, lying in a hospital bed with cancer eating my uterus, could not currently summon.Close behind her, with his hand on the small of her back, was David.He was saying something to her, something quiet and solicitous, the kind of intimate murmur that couples exchange in public spaces. His hand moved in small circles on her ba
The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 288: Choose Your Percentage
[Alice's POV]I was moved to a room on the oncology ward. A private room. Dr. Ibanez arranged it, perhaps out of professional courtesy towards Adam. The room had a window overlooking the same Alpine view that had been in Adam's room when he was a patient here. The same mountains. The same snow. The same indifferent beauty of a world that did not care whether the people watching it lived or died.I was lying on the bed when Adam came back to the room. He had been making phone calls — to Endall, I assumed, or Camilla’s babysitter. Or maybe to Dr. Ibanez, demanding updates with the ferocity of a man who had been stripped of his medical authority and was compensating with sheer force of will.He sat in the chair beside my bed. Took my hand. Didn't speak."Adam?" I tried."Don't.""I need to know what you saw. On the scans. You saw something."His jaw tightened. His thumb kept moving across my knuckles. A small, repetitive motion, self-soothing, the physical equivalent of counting to ten.
The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 287: A Battle Declaration
[Alice's POV]"I won't let you die," Adam said. "Do you hear me? I will not let you die. I gave up everything for you — my name, my fortune, my career, my family. And I would do it again tomorrow, and every tomorrow after that. So, I am not going to stand in a hospital corridor and watch you choose a child you haven't met over a life we haven't lived. I can't. Alice, I can't!"His voice broke on the last word. Completely shattered, like glass on stone. The sound of this strong, stubborn, impossible man falling apart on the kitchen floor was worse than any diagnosis, worse even than anything the cancer could do to my body."Adam, you have to understand, I can't give up this baby.”"You're not giving up a baby. You're saving your life. You’re saving Camilla’s mother!”I took his face in my hands. Forced him to look at me."This baby, David's child, is the only good thing other than Camilla, that came out of my marriage. It’s the only piece of that past life that I still carry. And I kno
The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 87: A Subversive Manipulation Strategy
[Alice’s POV]It was a brilliant, sunny day and yet, I still felt cold all over. Since moving out of our ruined home, I haven’t had a good night’s sleep these past few days.The ever-present, dull pain deep in my abdomen warns me that my condition is worsening, while my baby was growing. For the sa
最終更新日 : 2026-03-25The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 83: Exterminating the Vermin
[David’s POV]When I arrived at the door to our apartment, I heard sharp human voices and the sound of porcelain shattering, coming from inside. I had received a call from our panicked housekeeper. Her incoherent words on the phone made my heart sink, and I immediately left Lily to sleep. She had j
最終更新日 : 2026-03-25The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 89: The Calm Before the Storm
[Alice’s POV]The late afternoon sun cut sharp strips of light across the polished floor, through the hospital room blinds. The smell of disinfectant was barely tempered by the faint fragrance of the bouquet of white orange stems at Lily’s bedside. They were the flowers I had brought in for her, th
最終更新日 : 2026-03-25The Perfect Wife Walked Away Chapter 85: The Faded Truth
[Alice ‘sPOV]After we washed up in the bathroom, I sat on the sofa with Camilla in my arms. I was reading her a story. We had changed our clothes and were trying to regain the sense of security we had known before the stormy intrusion of my parents.When the doorbell rang again, I didn’t even look
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