Pustaka
Cari
Beranda / Romance / The Perfect Wife Walked Away / Chapter 122: The Silence After the Storm

Share

Chapter 122: The Silence After the Storm

Penulis: Anney GW
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-02-20 00:59:49

[Alice’s POV]

The days that followed the incident in the library were unnervingly quiet.

I woke up to the same view of the snow-capped Alps every morning, the light filtering through the heavy curtains and painting the room in soft, pale gold. There was no shouting, no slamming doors. No David with his demands.

But the silence didn't feel like peace. It felt like holding your breath underwater.

I sat in an armchair by the window; a wool blanket draped over my legs. I was still too thin. Endall
Lanjutkan membaca buku ini secara gratis
Pindai kode untuk mengunduh Aplikasi
Bab sebelumnya Bab selanjutnya
Bab Terkunci

Bab terbaru

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 263: Heated Coals Beneath The Ash

    [Alice's POV]Endall looked at me. And in that look, I saw everything — the years of waiting, the careful distances, the unspoken devotion, the gamble he had just made and lost. Not lost to me. Lost to the man in the bed who had somehow, impossibly, refused to die.He straightened his lab coat. Buttoned it. Adjusted the badge on his collar. Every gesture precise, controlled, the performance of composure so perfect it was almost indistinguishable from the real thing."I'll be outside," he said quietly. "If you need anything."He walked to the door. Opened it. Stepped out into the hallway.And just before the door closed, he turned his head — just slightly, just enough for me to see the edge of his profile — and said, "He was never going to let you go, Alice. I should have known that."Then the door closed, and Adam and I were alone.His grip on my wrist loosened. Not released — loosened. His fingers uncurled from the vise-like clench to something gentler, something that felt less like

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 262: Something Primal

    [Alice's POV]It didn't beep. It shouted — a sharp, frantic, staccato rhythm that bore no resemblance to the steady, mechanical pulse of the last three days. The waveform on the screen went from a gentle sine curve to a jagged, chaotic spike that jumped and dove and jumped again, the digital numbers beside it flashing from 62 to 110 to 134 in the space of three seconds.His blood pressure monitor followed. Systolic climbing — 110, 128, 145. The oxygen saturation held, but the respiratory rate spiked. Adam's chest was suddenly heaving with deep, rapid breaths that looked less like sleeping and more like a man surfacing from underwater.Endall jerked backward, spinning toward the bed. I lurched out of my chair, my bandaged hands grabbing the bed rail, my eyes fixed on Adam's face.His eyes were open.Not the unfocused, glassy stare of a patient in a vegetative state. Not the slow, groggy flutter of someone emerging from sedation. Wide open. Clear. Focused. The eyes of a man who was full

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 261: The Most Reckless Gamble

    [Alice's POV]He leaned down.The world narrowed. The window, the flowers, the medical monitors, the alpine light. All of it contracted to a single point: to Endall's face, inches from mine. His eyes — dark, intense, burning with something I had been refusing to see for months — locked onto mine with a directness that was almost aggressive.His voice was barely above a whisper. "Alice, marry me."The words hit me like a physical impact. Not because of their content — although the content was shocking enough — but because of the way they were delivered. Not tentative. Not hopeful. Not the stammering, uncertain proposal of a man who wasn't sure he'd be accepted. A statement. A declaration. A line drawn in the sand."What?" I breathed."Marry me," he repeated, louder now. And he didn't move. Didn't pull back. Didn't give me space. Stayed exactly where he was, his face close enough to mine that I could feel the warmth of his breath on my lips. "Not someday. Not when things settle down. No

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 260: Finding That Emotional Weight

    [Alice's POV]I had no idea what that could be.I didn't know what mattered to Adam on the surface level, let alone a deeper one. I knew he had become a doctor because of a girl in an alley. I knew he had destroyed his career because of me. I knew he had jumped into a river because of me. But those were actions, not reasons. They told me what he had done, not what he would come back for.I sat there for a long time, turning the problem over in my mind the way I would turn over a diagnostic puzzle, looking for the pattern, the key, the one variable that would unlock the system.Still, I didn't find it.The door opened. Endall.He had been coming every day; sometimes twice a day. Once in the morning and once in the evening, as if he had added hospital visits to his schedule alongside board meetings and lab reviews. He never stayed long. He would come in, check on me, check on Adam, ask if I needed anything — water, food, a different chair, a blanket — and then leave. Efficient. Practica

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 259: Something With Deeper Meaning

    [Alice's POV]They moved Adam to a private room on the third day.Not because there was a medical reason — the ICU ward had been good, the monitoring and care had been excellent, everything was functioning well for his recovery.I learned that Endall had pulled some strings.I didn't ask how, and he didn't explain. He simply appeared at my bedside one morning and said, "He's in room 312. I had him transferred. The neurologist agreed it might help — quieter environment, fewer interruptions, more consistent circadian cues."He said it with such clinical efficiency that I almost believed it was purely a medical decision.Almost.Room 312 was larger than the ICU bays. It boasted a window — an actual window, not a slit in a wall but a pane of glass that looked out over the Zurich skyline and the distant, snow-dusted line of the Alps. The light that came through was different here. Softer. Warmer. Less institutional. Someone — Endall, probably — had placed a small vase of white flowers on t

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 258: Machinations And Deceit

    [Alice's POV]"You should be careful, Dr. Andorra," Lily said quietly. "Like you said, you're a scientist, not a warrior. Not a politician. Not someone who knows how the real world works. If you push this, if you make accusations you can't prove in a courtroom, the consequences won't just fall on you. They'll fall on the institute. On Alice. On my fiancé. On everyone connected to this."She was weaponizing Endall's position. Reminding him that he wasn't just a person — he was a node in a network, a piece in a system, and systems had mechanisms for dealing with nodes that caused problems.It should have worked. By any rational analysis, it should have made Endall step back, reassess, calculate the cost-to-benefit ratio of continuing this confrontation.It didn't work.Because Endall Andorra had not just spent the last seventy-two hours doing rational analysis. He had spent them staring at a phone screen, reading updates about a woman he loved being rescued with a dead bomb on her chest

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 110: The Glass Frontier

    [Alice’s POV]The air inside the Swiss Institute for Advanced Oncology didn't smell like death. It smelled like electricity, ozone, and the sharp, clean scent of possibility.Endall Andorra pushed my wheelchair through the pressurized glass doors of the main research wing, and for the first time in

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-28

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 106: The Ghost in the Machine

    [Adam’s POV]I was born with a platinum spoon in my mouth, but it tasted like ash.From birth my trajectory was plotted by men in suits who cared more about stock margins than humanity. I was the sole heir to the Ballard dynasty. The crown prince. The golden calf. And like any prized animal, I was

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-27

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 103: The Silent Sacrifice

    [Adam’s POV]The adrenaline from throwing the punch was fading, replaced by the cold, sterile focus of the operating room. My knuckles throbbed — a dull, rhythmic reminder of David’s face beneath my fist — but I didn’t have the luxury of nursing a sore hand.Under the harsh glare of the surgical li

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-27

  • The Perfect Wife Walked Away   Chapter 99: To Free My Conscience

    [Alice's POV]“I won’t sign this.” I firmly pushed the document back.David frowned. “What did you say?” It was clearly not the reaction he expected.“You heard me. I won’t admit to something I haven’t done.” I looked at him and stated each word clearly. “I won’t sign this confession. Even if it’s

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-27
Bab Lainnya

Anda juga akan menyukai

Jelajahi dan baca novel bagus secara gratis
Akses gratis ke berbagai novel bagus di aplikasi GoodNovel. Unduh buku yang kamu suka dan baca di mana saja & kapan saja.
Baca buku gratis di Aplikasi
Pindai kode untuk membaca di Aplikasi
DMCA.com Protection Status