He Made An Exception For Her But Never For Me Chapter 07
She tried to grab at his trouser leg.
“Adrian, please, let me explain.”
“I really didn’t know the accident was that bad. I was just so scared of losing you.”
“You weren’t afraid of losing me. You were enjoying it. Enjoying playing me for a fool.”
Adrian stood up, avoiding her touch.
The only thing left in his eyes when he looked at her was revulsion.
“You said the computer had frozen and you pressed reset.”
“But when tech recovered the data, they checked the log. Before the wipe.”
“Someone had manually searched for the dash cam file name, and only then triggered the destruction.”
Adrian’s gaze fixed on her.
“You destroyed the evidence to hide your lie.”
“And you were willing to watch a man who saved a life be left to die.”
“Do you understand what you did? Because you insisted on hunting for a cat that night.”
“I ordered them to shut off Ethan’s ECMO with my own hand. Because of one phrase from you. ‘I’m scared.'”
“I pushed my wife with two broken ribs straight into the corner of a desk with my own hand!”
His voice shook with regret, and the veins on his forehead stood out sharply.
Chloe let out a shriek, clutching her chest and gasping for air.
“Adrian, I can’t breathe! My depression is triggering! I need a knife! I’m going to cut myself!”
“Then go.”
Adrian looked at her, his voice merciless.
“There are steak knives in the kitchen. Go and cut yourself right now.”
“If you die in this house today, I, Adrian Bosworth, will pay for the most elegant funeral money can buy.”
Chloe’s fake retching died in her throat.
“Your stress disorder. Your severe depression.”
“They were never anything but bargaining chips you used to demand special treatment.”
Adrian pulled out his phone and made a call.
“Lynch, bring the team. Send Miss Lawson to Ravenwood Psychiatric Retreat.”
“Since she’s so ill, she can receive proper treatment there.”
“No one is permitted to visit her without my authorization.”
“Freeze every card in her name. Reclaim every property.”
“No! Adrian, you can’t do this to me!”
Chloe fell apart, wailing like a woman gone mad.
I had heard enough of the show. I stepped out of the shadows.
And tossed the folder in my hand onto the coffee table.
“That was quite the display of noble self-sacrifice, Mr. Bosworth.”
“A pity. My brother still won’t be coming back.”
Adrian’s body went rigid.
He turned slowly, and the moment his eyes met mine.
Every trace of hardness in his gaze washed away, replaced by something else.
A kind of panic that struck me as almost absurd.
He took a step forward, his eyes so red they seemed on the verge of bleeding.
“Sophia! You came back! You finally came back.”
I looked at him, expressionless, and slid the divorce papers a little further toward him.
“I didn’t come here to apologize.”
I looked at the [∞] above his head, now the color of dead ash.
And I spoke calmly.
“Sign them. Three years is enough.”