All Chapters of You Chose Your First Love, I Chose Goodbye: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The beef patties had tasted sweet, yet they had become the most bittersweet thorn of Harper's youth. And now, that thorn had become the only signpost leading her back to him....The old neighborhood, the West Side.In the narrow, grimy alleyway, a place where only delivery carts and electric scooters usually passed through, a fiery Ferrari pulled up with jarring prominence, drawing curious glances from the neighborhood's older residents.Before the car had even come to a stop, Harper leaped out and raced up the stairs. Following the directions she remembered, she quickly found the apartment."Asher! Asher, are you in there?" she called out anxiously.The rusted metal door remained tightly shut, like a silent mouth. She slammed her palms against it with all her might until her hands turned bright red."Asher! Answer me! It's Harper!"What answered her was dead silence. She frantically pulled out her phone to call him again, and through the heavy door, she caught the faint, muff

That right foot, the one that had kept itching, didn't move an inch.Asher froze, then tried again. Still nothing.A cold, unprecedented terror shot up his spine and spread through his entire body. That weightless feeling was no longer comforting; it had morphed into a dark void.He realized something was horribly wrong.Harper, who had been sobbing hysterically a moment ago, suddenly fell quiet. Her eyes began to dodge his, and her hand reached out on instinct as if to pin down the blanket.The grief on her face was so intense, it was as though she were looking at a piece of porcelain shattered beyond repair.Her lips trembled. "Asher, you just woke up. Don't move around...""Move aside." Asher stared at her, his gaze turning cold."Asher...""I said move!"Gathering his strength, he shoved her hand away and yanked back the snow-white duvet covering him. In an instant, the air froze solid. His entire world drained into black and white.He stared blankly at his lower body. H

"So, that's what it was..." Katherine tightened his jaw, forcing each word through clenched teeth. "That's why he had the nerve to ask for a divorce. That's why he had the nerve to walk out on me..."He already had a backup plan lined up, running straight into the arms of his old flame!"A sense of betrayal unlike anything she'd ever felt erupted through her like molten lava.She could accept Asher being incompetent, even being a failure, but she could never accept him secretly getting involved with another woman.And of all people, Harper, the very woman who had always been eyeing Asher like a hawk."Bring the car around!" Katherine commanded, rising abruptly from her seat.She snatched her trench coat off the back of the chair and threw it over her shoulders, her movements sharp and ruthless. "Bring the security team. Every one of them."Lucas watched in awe, secretly delighted by what was happening. He ventured cautiously, "Katherine, where are you going?"Katherine sneered,

The duvet was ripped back violently, billowing away like a giant white cloud swept up by a gale, exposing the cruel truth it had concealed.Time seemed to freeze in that instant.Lucas, who had been snickering seconds ago, froze with the smirk pinned to his face. The menacing security guards holding back Harper froze in place.Every trace of expression froze on Katherine's face, turning it as pale and gray as plaster. The air felt sucked out of the room. The entire world fell into a dead, suffocating silence.Katherine's pupils contracted violently. Her gaze seemed magnetically drawn to Asher's lower body, locking onto it in stunned disbelief.He wore a pair of loose, blue-and-white striped hospital pants. His left leg was long, straight, and intact; it was the very leg she used to love resting her head on at night.But his right leg...It felt as though a high-voltage wire had snapped inside Katherine's head. High-pitched ringing deafened her ears, and everything in front of he

The scar resembled a hideous centipede sprawled across Asher's skin. The moment Katherine's eyes fell upon it, her pupils contracted sharply.The floodgates of her memory shattered, as even more tragic, blood-soaked scenes came rushing back.Three years ago, the Spears Group had just executed a takeover of a major competitor. Driven to desperation, the rival executive hired professional hitmen to ambush her in the underground parking lot.Asher had driven her to work as usual. A man wearing a baseball cap suddenly lunged out from behind a concrete pillar, pointing a dark gun barrel straight between Katherine's eyebrows.She was paralyzed with fear, forgetting even how to scream. All she felt was a shove that sent her flying to the ground. Immediately after, three deafening gunshots echoed through the parking lot.Blood erupted across Asher's back, with one bullet tearing clean through his chest. Warm, thick blood splashed across her face. As he collapsed into her arms, blood bubbl