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As the Luke family gathered around Lily, all trying to comfort her and case her pain, John’s bloodshot eyes glowed with fury. His face, however, had gone ghostly pale.
He had always believed Lily loved him deeply-that she’d never leave him.
He couldn’t bring himself to believe she’d ever marry someone else.
But the way the Luke family was treating her left no room for denial.
Lily… had actually married James.
She had betrayed him. She had turned her back on him, John!
“Lily, why are you crying?”
Seeing Lily’s tears falling like raindrops, Grace and Nancy immediately panicked, scrambling to wipe her cheeks dry.
“Is it your wounds? Are they hurting too much? The doctor’s on the way-he’ll check everything right away.”
But Lily wasn’t crying from the pain in her body.
She was crying because her heart was so full
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She wanted to stop, not to worry Grace and the others.
But her tear ducts wouldn’t listen.
She kept telling herself to hold it in, but the moment she caught the warmth in Grace and Nancy’s eyes, her tears flowed even harder, like pearls coming loose from a broken strand.
It was strange.
When no one cared about her, she was strong.
But when people, actually cared… suddenly she became soft. Fragile. Needy.
“You brat!”
Henry shot James another sharp glare.
Look at his granddaughter-in-law, bawling like this!
And this damn brat was just standing there like a block of ice, doing absolutely nothing to comfort her. He really had no idea how two decent people had managed to raise such a defective son!
James clearly received the full force of his grandfather’s disgusted look.
He knew what the old man wanted-he wanted him to comfort Lily.
Maybe it was a bad heart day, but watching Lily cry left James feeling incredibly suffocated. Like someone had placed a boulder on his chest.
Still, he forced himself to ignore the discomfort..
His heart belonged to Leila. Even if Lily was his wife in name, he couldn’t bring himself to comfort her.
He cast a glance at her-expressionless, detached-then forced himself to look away.
“Lily, don’t cry anymore.”
Nancy couldn’t stand the sight of all that blood. She gently tried to lead Lily toward the hospital bed.
“Let’s get you lying down before you tear something else.”
“Lily!”
Still a little dazed, Lily followed Nancy toward the bed.
She hadn’t even reached it when a sudden pain shot through her wrist-John had grabbed her hard.
His eyes were completely bloodshot, like a sea of crimson rage about to drown everything in its path.
He looked at her like she had betrayed him, broken his heart, destroyed his world.
But Lily-Lily had never wronged him in her entire life.
It was long over between them. She didn’t want anything to do with him.
She tried to yank her hand away, but he gripped her like a wolf cornered at the edge of a cliff-desperate, unhinged, and determined to drag her down with him.
He stepped closer, tightening his grip as he spoke, voice hoarse and shaking, “You really married James? We hadn’t even broken up-how could you marry someone else? Lily, you promised you’d always be with me, that you’d always love me. How could you be so heartless? How could you betray me?”
“John, you seriously need therapy.”
He was spewing this nonsense in front of the entire Luke family. Lily was both embarrassed and furious. Her voice turned sharp as she cut him off cold, “Let go.”
“If you’re sick, go get help. But stop losing your mind in front of me. If I’m not mistaken, you and Elsa held a wedding the day after I dumped you. I even posted a breakup statement, congratulated you two, wished you a long and happy marriage. We were already done, John. Done. So why the hell wouldn’t I marry someone else? You want to talk betrayal? Let’s talk about how you gave Elsa the heirlooms my parents left me just to make her happy. How you dressed your crush in the wedding dress I made with my own hands. How, on my birthday, you gave her a damn wedding. You spent months cuddling up to her behind my back-but I’m the one who betrayed you? John, you cheated. You couldn’t pick one woman. You wanted to have it all. You’re selfish and cold as hell. You don’t get to judge me.”
John’s eyes were blood-red, his gaze turning even darker, clouded by a thick red fog.
He remembered everything she was saying.
But he didn’t do it because he didn’t love her. It wasn’t because he wanted both women.
He just didn’t want Elsa to die with regrets.
He’d always loved Lily. Always.
He didn’t believe for a second that she’d fallen for someone else so quickly.
He preferred to think she’d married James just to piss him off.
She was being childish. She was trying to get back at him. That’s what he told himself.
And even though it made him furious, part of him still wanted her back.
So he decided to give her a chance to come down from the ledge.
“Lily, I know you don’t like me taking care of Elsa. But she doesn’t have much time left-I can’t just abandon her. I’m willing to overlook the fact that you married James. Divorce him, come back to me, and I’ll give you a proper wedding. As long as you behave and stay by my side, I can help make the charges from this drunk driving case disappear. Lily, come home with me!”
Lily actually laughed out loud.
Sure, once the cooling-off period passed, she would divorce James.
But she’d never pick up that piece of trash again. She would never go back to John.
She didn’t care about his so-called wedding.
Help her out of this mess?
She hadn’t done anything wrong-what was there to fix?
“John, how many times do I have to say it before you get it? I stopped loving you a long time ago. I think you’re dirty, I think you’re disgusting, I think you’re just a used-up secondhand man. I will never go back to you. All I want is for you to stop bothering me and stay out of my life.”
“Lily!”
Hearing her draw the line again-calling him disgusting, a secondhand man-John couldn’t help but shout.
But Lily wasn’t fazed. She stared him down with that same defiant, stubborn glare, and said slowly, clearly, “You’re a secondhand man. You’re disgusting.”
The elders of the Luke family had all heard about Lily and John’s past.
None of them thought highly of John’s two-timing behavior.
Still, they respected Lily. This was her personal matter, and they weren’t going to step in unless she wanted them to.
James found his gaze drifting toward Lily again.
She stood with her chin raised, full of rebellion and fire. Her face was pale, but her eyes were burning with life.
She looked like a sunflower in full bloom, stretching toward the sun.
The sight of her made his heartbeat falter for just a moment.
And when he remembered that she had once poured her heart into marrying John-even sewing the wedding dress herself-his chest tightened with something sharp and bitter.
But she was just the wife he was trying to get rid of. Who she wanted to marry, and who she once made a wedding dress for-it didn’t matter.
“Lily, stop this.”
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