Chapter 8
Chlor, I was wrong. Iwasan KTMİ
He looked tip in me, his eyes filled with rate pain and desperation.
“Torgive you?” Let not a cobi brich.
SMACK
I dapped him across the Inte, hard
His head jerked to the side, a red handprint immediately blooming on
11 forgive you the day you being my sister back to life.”
dy voice was cold, dripping with hatred.
His eyes met mine, filled with regret and sorrow.
“Chloe, I know I hurt you. I know I failed you and your sister
“If you want to hit me, scream at me do whatever it takes to make you feel better.
“I deserve it”
He raised his hand and slapped himself.
SMACK SMACK SMACK
Each hit landed harder than the last, blood seeping from the corner of his mach.
I watched him with detached indifference.
Zane, do you really think this will make
I make me forgive you?”
“The moment you let our child die. the moment you turned your back on save my sister.. you became someone I could never forgive.”
“To me, you’re nothing but an enemy.“
Zane crawled forward on his knees, gripping the hem of my dress like a desperate man drowning
“I know you hate me. I know you wish I was dead..”
“But I can’t live without you, Chloe. For three years, I’ve thought about you every single day..”
His bloodshot eyes bore into mine, his tears falling freely.
“Chloe, please come back to me. Take my life if you want just don’t leave me again.”
He lowered his head and started banging it against the floor.
Thud Thud. Thud.
The dull sound echoed through the space, and blood quickly seeped from his forehead, drawing a crowd of onlookers,
I stared down at him, unmoved.
Just like he had, three years ago, when I was the one kneeling outside his mansion.
Cold. Heartless.
“Do you remember bong you terated Inn?”
“You draimed nie of my blood. You let ma baby die.”
“You homillated me in front of everyone again and xgxin for Liby
*And you stood there, watching as my sister took her for breath.
My voice was sih, but each word was a blade cutting through him…
His head snapped up, eyes filled with agony.
“Chloe, I was wrong. I knew I was wrong. 11 give everything back to you ever thing
1 destroyed the Monroes, I made Lily pay she’s dead now
Tll make it up to you. I’ll repay you. Just let me fix this”
His voice cracked, unraveling like a broken man
I stood up looking down at him.
“Zane, you’ll never be able to make up for this. What you owe me, you’ll never pay back.”
Iturned and walked away.
Behind me, I could hear his gut wrenching cries.
“Chloe, please please look at me please.
I didn’t turn hack. How much of my pain had he ever really felt?
Compared to what I went through, it was nothing.
Zane was just like I was back then, kneeling outside my studio.
The same rainy day, he knelt for three days and nights until he collapsed in the rain.
They took him to the hospital, but once he woke up, he came back to kneel again
After more than ten days, Zane had wasted away to nothing, his eyes bloodshot his hair turning gray.
He aged decades in those few weeks
I looked at him, but I felt nothing. My heart had died long ago.
Then one day. I went to an exhibition, and suddenly, a fire broke our
I was trapped in the flames, choking on the smoke, struggling to breathe.
The fire was spreading, and I thought I was going to pass out.
Just when I thought all hope was lost, someone charged into the fire.
It was Zane.
He was out
is out of his mind, running through the flames.
“Chloe! ChloelTM
When he saw me, he threw his soaked cost over me.
My Boyfriend Drained My Blood to Pladse His Stepsister
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He Khid me lip Erarms, using his body to shield she ran toward the
Jest in we were about to reach k, a chandelier fell from above.
He shoved me toward the exit, thenwing himself under it to take the impact.
I was saved, but when the firelighters pulled Zane mit, he was envered in seville barns.
He lay in the hospital hed, his bedy wrapped in handages, his face horribly disgured.
When he saw me, his weak eyes flickered with a glimmer of hope
“Chloe rough cough
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Telt inc.
His voice was raspy, struggling to speak. He opened his palm to reveal the bratelet my t
“Chloe…I got this back from Lily it’s yours.
I took the bracelet, a thousand emotions flooding my mind.
He gave a sad smile, “The debt Lowe you for saving me.. I’ve paid that. but..
“I still owe you so much. I can never repay it..
“Sorry cough cough I was wrong. In another life maybe I’ll pay you back
fear fell from his eye, and his hand dropped limply.
Zane died in front of me.
I looked at the bracelet, and tears finally fell.
But those tears weren’t for him.
They were for the love I had lost, the youth I could never get back, and the regrets that would never be undone.
As they covered Zane with a white sheet, I turned and walked away.
Zane, you died trying to save me, but you still carried the weight of my sister death.
This life, the next, forever I never forgive you.
Some mistakes, once made, can never be undone.
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