Lies, Love, And Letting Go

mmend sticking to conservative treatment. You m

's voice kept looping in her head, each word hammering deeper into her chest. Her finge

nifed through her abdomen, twisting her insides until her knees nearly buckled. The agony radiated along ever

of a horn split through

p just in time to see a

hing as the vehicle skimmed past her shoulder. The rush of wind whipp

of pain up her leg as she collapsed onto the rough pavement. A fierce throb pu

are you fucking blind? You got a death wish or something? If y

lurched away, leaving the ai

choed mercilessly in her head. She hadn't expected a diagnosis like that, yet looking back, the signs had always been there. Years of scarfing down cold meals at odd h

awareness of her fragility cracked something open inside her. In t

aw and forced the tears back. With trembling fingers, she pull

e corner, the only thing she wanted

ly disconnected. She dialed again.

agged her deeper into t

of hope-maybe Vincent was tied up at w

and typed out a message to Vincent with deliberat

d by before his rep

e ache in her ankle and loosening the weight crushing her heart. For

.

gh the gates of Luna Villa, her pulse unstead

sanctuary after the wedding-her m

ushing the edge of the folded medical report. Vincent was rarely home these da

rose onto her toes, sliding th

ed her attention. Wedged in the pocket of one of Vincent'

reached for it. Between her fingers emerged a delicate sc

ring instant, it felt as if she'd been dropped into a

a sledgehammer, and a bitter surge climbed the

g to Vincent's needs. She'd convinced herself that hard work and gentle patience would

spent pleasing him and his family, had been rewarded with cold, shameless betrayal.

urled the offending lace to the floor, stumble

wasn't bile but a horrif

lurring the blood against the po

tiled wall was the only thing keeping her upright as a high-pitc

, the unmistakable sound of Vincent'

palm against the flush button, heart hammering against

oor burst open with a