The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 34
Later, the hospital asked if I wanted to stay on after my fellowship ended.
I didn’t answer right away.
Before, every decision I made had included Tucker.
What city he was in. What his Family thought. When we would register our marriage. What day the wedding should be.
This time, I looked only at my own work schedule.
Three days later, I signed the contract.
When Chloe found out, she sighed dramatically.
“If Peace wants to see you in the future, she’ll have to sit through another long flight.”
“Then she can come during school breaks.”
“And you’ll take care of her?”
“I will.”
Peace immediately threw herself around my leg.
“Promise!”
She didn’t know that a child’s promises are very light things.
But I still hooked my pinky with hers seriously.
Because people who truly love her would never make a game out of her trust.
…
At the final hearing of the three-party committee, I had to speak.
Tucker had submitted a request in advance, hoping I would come to the United States in person.
I refused.
A screen was enough.
When he was wheeled into the frame, he looked even thinner than last time.
The hands he had once had broken on purpose had been set again, but the rest of his body would never stand on its own.
He was no longer the heir of the Moretti Family.
There were no men at his back, no signet ring on his finger, just a caretaker assigned to watch him.
The moment he saw me, his eyes turned red.
“Isolde.”
I didn’t answer.
Sloane sat on the other side.
She was missing one leg. The scars on her face had faded, but there was still something deeply unpleasant in her eyes.