The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 326

A sneer curled at the corner of Gideon's lips.

The woman had really leveled up her game.

Outside the door, Lucia was utterly stunned. She stared at Nora's pale, resolute face, gazing into the dead, stagnant calmness in her eyes.

Lucia's excitement gradually bled away, replaced rapidly by an intense heartache.

"Nora."

Lucia grabbed Nora's freezing fingers, her voice trembling with profound worry. "Have you... truly moved on?"

A long, suffocating silence gripped the corridor.

Behind the door, Gideon was waiting for the exact same answer.

His body stood rigid behind the panel. A trace of panic—one he didn't even recognize himself—churned furiously in his dark, icy eyes.

If she dared say 'yes,' he swore that the day he walked out of this hospital would be the day the Xavier family and Lawrence Atelier were entirely eradicated from The Metropolis.

He would absolutely not allow a woman who had deceived him and exploited the guilt of the Hayes patriarch to simply walk away unscathed.

Yet, Nora didn't answer.

Some wounds had festered so completely that she no longer had the energy to slice them open and display them to the world.

Had she moved on?

A ten-year obsession, a habit branded straight into her very marrow—how could she just wipe it away overnight as if dusting off a table?

But what was the alternative?

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