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He’d been wrong.
“Since you know the truth now, get the hell out of my room.”
Lily yanked back her phone, coldly and decisively. “Out. Just seeing you and Elsa disgusts me. Do me a favor-stay out of my life.”
Simon didn’t respond.
His gaze lingered on her face, dazed.
Her forehead was bleeding again.
That bright red blood stained her lashes and brows, but she didn’t look hideous.
No, she looked like fine porcelain, cracked.
The sight made his chest twist uncomfortably.
There was blood on her lips too.
And just now… those lips had brushed against his cheek, soft as cotton candy.
Simon startled at the memory, horrified by where his mind had gone.
He took a full step back, putting distance between them.
Yes, he had misunderstood her this time.
But that didn’t change the fact that she’d bullied his Lizzy before.
Lizzy was pure. If she’d done something like this, it had to be because Lily had pushed her too far.
“Lily, you didn’t hurt her, so I won’t punish you today.”
He forced his gaze away from her face, voice as cold as a blade. “But if you ever dare to hurt her again, I will make you pay. Consider yourself warned.”
With that, he turned and strode out of the room.
And just to show how much he still despised her, he slammed the door shut with a loud bang, scattering bloodstained scraps of the wedding dress across the floor.
“Freak.”
Lily hadn’t expected Simon to still take Elsa’s side even after seeing the truth.
She hated him more and more. Not even bothering to dwell on the mess that had just happened, she cleaned up the torn dress and sent the video to John via WhatsApp.
She didn’t care anymore about his blind devotion to Elsa.
She only sent the video because she couldn’t stand seeing justice flipped upside down.
At the hospital, after Elsa’s wound was bandaged, she was wheeled into her room.
But John… couldn’t stop thinking about Lily’s bleeding forehead.
He was about to call Wayne and tell him to drive Lily to the hospital, when her name popped up in his messages.
She’d sent him a video.
He opened it instinctively-and saw Elsa tearing apart Lily’s handmade wedding dress and stabbing her own hand.
And yet, back at the hotel, he’d refused to believe Lily. Called her vicious. Disgusting.
Even shoved her to the floor.
His chest tightened until he could barely breathe.
Especially when he recalled the look in her eyes-disappointed, bitter-as he carried Elsa away.
It felt like knives twisting in his heart.
He had to go see her.
John stood abruptly, reaching for his car keys-
But Elsa grabbed his hand, her eyes red.
“John, are you going to Lily? My hand… it hurts so much. Don’t leave me, okay?”
“Elsa.”
John turned to her, his eyes for once filled with something other than indulgence-disappointment.
“Lily recorded everything. She didn’t hurt you. I saw it with my own eyes-you destroyed the dress. You stabbed yourself. Why? Why would you ruin the wedding dress Lily made by hand? Why would you frame her?”
“L…”
Elsa’s face went paper-white.
She hadn’t expected Lily to be so despicable. To actually record the whole thing.
She’d spent so much time pretending to be sick-taking meds to cough up blood-just to win back his sympathy.
There was no way she could let him go back to Lily now.
She shut her eyes, tears spilling over, the picture of cold and noble heartbreak.
“Yes. I framed her. I did something I despise. Something I’ve always sworn I’d never do. But I did it… because I love you. I didn’t want to share you-not in the last moments of my life.”
She sniffled, like a proud red rose bowing its head for love.
Beautiful. Tragic.
“John, you must think I’m disgusting, right? You must hate me now. But if you want to leave, if you don’t want to see me ever again, I’ll disappear. Right now.”
And as she spoke, blood slowly seeped from the corner of her mouth again.
“Elsa…”
In the past, when Elsa coughed up blood, John would feel nothing but pain and worry.
But now, seeing the blood at the corner of her lips, he was filled with an unexplainable irritation that gnawed at him.
She didn’t look good at all.
Still, he didn’t go looking for Lily. Instead, he grabbed a tissue from the side table and carefully wiped the blood from her lips.
Elsa didn’t have much time left. John didn’t want to say anything harsh to her.
After a long silence, he furrowed his brows and finally said, “This is the last time. Don’t ever do something like this again. I promised I’d stay with you until the end, and I will. But Lily is my girlfriend. I won’t stand by while she gets slandered and hurt.”
Lily is his girlfriend…
Elsa’s long fingernails dug viciously into her palm, breaking the tender skin.
She hated sharing anything with anyone-especially the man she loved the most.
But she knew that no amount of hysteria could win back his heart.
The proud and icy rose finally lowered her head and murmured softly, “John, I’m sorry for causing trouble. I never meant to hurt anyone. I just wanted you to care about me a little more… to spend more time with me.”
“Mm.”
John’s mind wandered again to the bloody wound on Lily’s forehead. He seemed distracted.
He didn’t even really hear what Elsa said-he just responded absentmindedly.
While his mind drifted, Elsa shifted her body and curled softly into his chest. “I’ve been having nightmares every night lately. I dream that I’m bleeding so much… and no matter how hard I try, I can’t open my eyes. John, am I going to die soon? I’m so scared I’ll never see you again… Please don’t leave tonight. Stay with me. Please?”
John looked down and met Elsa’s face-so proud, yet on the verge of collapse, so full of helpless panic.
He couldn’t say no to her like this.
With a quiet sigh, he loosely wrapped an arm around her. “I’ll stay here with you in the room. Just get some rest.”
Hearing this, Elsa knew he wouldn’t leave tonight. A quiet sigh of relief settled in her chest.
But her hatred for Lily only grew stronger.
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