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Eleanor Thorne, who received the hospital’s call, rushed anxiously to the hospital. Seeing Marcus lying lifelessly in the hospital bed, she broke down in tears.
Although she knew all of this was Marcus’s own doing, she couldn’t stand by and watch the Thorne family’s only heir disappear
like this.
Eleanor Thorne called my phone, weeping and begging me to save her grandson.
“Elara, please, give Marcus another chance. I know he was a jerk and hurt you, but saving a life is a blessed act that outweighs any sin.”
When I received Eleanor Thome’s call, I was having a candlelit dinner with Julian Blackwood, celebrating our wedding.
“Eleanor, I’ve done everything I could. I can’t change the outcome now.”
I was about to hang up when I heard Marcus’s weak voice from the other end.
“Grandma… let me… talk to her…”
A flurry of hurried footsteps, and the phone was brought to Marcus’s ear.
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“I believe you now. I’ll never… never do that again. Please… please come back.”
Listening to Marcus’s weak pleas, I let out a cold laugh.
“Marcus Thorne, I can’t come back.”
“I’m already married.”
At my words, a violent fit of coughing erupted from the other end, along with frantic sounds of someone helping him.
It took a while for a voice to return.
“Elara, I truly… truly know… I was wrong.”
“Please! Please… come..
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Before he could finish, I heard Eleanor Thorne burst into tears. Marcus had fainted.
Hanging up the phone, my hand was covered by
large one. I looked up to see Julian Blackwood’s concerned eyes.
“I’ll go with you.”
I smiled and nodded at him.
When we arrived at the hospital, Marcus had just regained consciousness.
Seeing me enter, he excitedly tried to sit up, but couldn’t manage it, only reaching out in my direction.
The
I stood by his hospital bed, calmly looking at this man for whom I had once risked my life. Now, my heart felt no ripples.
“Eiara, you’re back. You’ve finally forgiven me, haven’t you?”
“When I get better, I’ll go with you to see Grandma.”
He looked at his outstretched hand, and I silently took a step back.
His already pale face immediately changed even more.
“Marcus Thorne, I came to tell you that I’m already married. You and I can never go back.”
“And there’s no need. The urn Lila Monroe broke was Grandma’s.”
Marcus’s eyes widened in horror, unable to believe what he was hearing.
“Elara, you’re lying to me, right?”
As he spoke, he panicked and tried to scramble out of bed, but he was too weak and simply tumbled to the floor.
Marcus lay crumpled and pathetic before me, reminding me of that stormy night on the highway, when he dragged me from the car and I lay just as pathetically crumpled on the road.
And he had looked down at me coldly, coldly throwing out a “This is your lesson,” before speeding away.
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Looking at his tormented expression, my heart remained calm, even feeling a hint of irony.
He crawled toward my feet, tugging at my pants leg.
“You’re my wife, how could you marry someone else?”
I pulled the marriage certificate from my bag and opened it, displaying it before him.
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“See clearly? I married Julian Blackwood today!”
“And I wasn’t infertile. I buried my deepest desire to be a mother for three long years, all to save you. But what about you?”
“For your own selfishness, you hurt me again and again. Now you’re lying here and you remember me?”
“Marcus Thorne, I can’t save you anymore. You’re on your own now.”
My words landed with forceful clarity, heard distinctly by everyone present.
With that, I turned to leave. Behind me, Marcus’s desperate cry echoed, followed by gasps His eyes were fixed on my retreating back, hoping I would turn and look at him one last time.
But I never looked back, walking straight towards Julian Blackwood, who was
He extended his hand to me, and I naturally placed mine into his.
We strode out.
for breath
as
he clutched his chest.
waiting at the hospital room door.
A month later, Julian Blackwood gave me a magnificent, grand wedding, which became another legendary story in the city’s elite circles for decades to come.
Only this time, it was real.
He had said he would give me a grand, proper wedding, to marry me with all the pomp and legitimacy I deserved, and he truly
did.
That day, happiness felt utterly real to me. I became the woman everyone admired globally.
And the crimson mark on my forehead grew more pronounced after the wedding.
After the wedding, Julian Blackwood took me to all the places I wanted to go for our honeymoon.
We went to the Galápagos Islands to see dolphins, to Iceland to see the Northern Lights.
And our honeymoon baby was conceived in the Aegean Sea in Greece.
When we returned to the city after our honeymoon, the news was dominated by Thorne Industries.
#Thome Industries‘ Sole Heir Passes Away at 10 AM Today, Following Unsuccessful Treatment! #
