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Braeden sat in the hospital, staring at his phone for a long time, unable to snap out of it.
Did he really hear Angela say the word ‘break up‘?
They had been together for over twenty years, even during their worst arguments.
Neither of them had ever uttered those words.
Braeden tried calling Angela again, but her phone was already unreachable.
The moment he collapsed at the operating room door, he saw Angela running away without looking back.
Even when he was unconscious and on the verge of death, his grandfather called her, but she still didn’t come.
She even said so many cruel things.
Braeden was furious.
If Valerie hadn’t secretly come back every six months over the past seven years to donate a bag of blood, stored at the Hernandez Group’s hospital, he would have definitely died this time.
Braeden had known since childhood that he had health problems.
His grandfather had told him that he found several adults with the same blood type to be donors.
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Each time they donated blood to him, they were paid five million.
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When he was young and impulsive, he protected Angela and fought many battles for her, needing more blood back then.
But after graduating and entering society, he learned to solve everything with strategy and never got hurt again.
He had never imagined that every blood donation wasn’t from the adults his grandfather mentioned.
It was Valerie’s frail body that endured it all.
She had saved his life for twenty years.
And loved him for twenty years.
He used to think it was all Angela.
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Because every time he received a transfusion, it was Angela lying in the bed next to his.
And that girl would always say,
“Bray, I’m so weak too, you have to share lots of delicious food with me.”
Back then, he wanted to spoil Angela endlessly.
It wasn’t until half a year ago, the night his grandfather forced him to share a room with Valerie, that after hurting himself, he learned it had always been Valerie donating blood to him, not Angela.
A nurse from the next room rushed over.
“Mr. Hernandez, Mrs. Hernandez is awake.”
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When Braeden heard ‘Mrs. Hernandez,‘ his first reaction was,
“Angela, she…”
But as soon as he spoke, he realized he was wrong.
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Mrs. Hernandez wasn’t Angela, it was Valerie.
Braeden immediately went to the next room.
Valerie was crying uncontrollably.
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ཤ་ར་ད་དོ།། ོན་ ་་གསང་་ ོན་ ེན་ཚང་ན་། ན་ ན་ ེང་བས་ན་་་ཆུན་
ང་དང་ང་་ར་གན་ང་ང་མ་ནས་ནན་ ་ ་ ནང་ཡད་ ན་ ེན་ རང་ ར་ ར་ ན་ ་ བད་ རང་ཅན་ ང་ ་ བ ས་ཤད་ པ་ནན ན ་ ག ང་ ་ ང་ད་་་ངས་དང་ ་ ད་ ོ་་་་ ༦ ་
ཀྱང་ན་ ད་ ་ ༨ ར་ས་དང་རས་ ང་ རམ་་དང་་ར་ཤན་བར་
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Bray, let’s get a divorce. I don’t have a uterus anymore, and I caused problems between you and Ms. Taylor. It’s my fault, I can’t stay by your side any longer.”
Braeden pulled Valerie into his arms.
His heart was full of pain and guilt.
“Valie, you haven’t wronged anyone. It’s me who loved the wrong person all these years. Angela’s uterus has already been removed and given to you. From now on, I’ll treat you well. You risked your life to save me, and I’m truly grateful.”
Valerie leaned into Braeden’s embrace, crying, “Bray, can I really stay by your side? I thought this was my greatest wish in life. Do you really not love Angela anymore?”
When Braeden heard Angela’s name, he felt a sharp pain in his chest.
Even though he had mistaken his savior, the fact that he had cherished Angela for twenty–seven years was undeniable.
How could he possibly forget?
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But then he thought of Angela’s indifference when he was on the verge of death.
He thought of all the kindness he had shown Angela over the years, only to be repaid with ingratitude.
Braeden knew that the person he should love was Valerie, who stood before him.
If Angela begged for his forgiveness, he would still be willing to keep things as they were.
Just thinking about it made Braeden want to call Angela.
But he forced himself to hold back; this time, he wanted that stubborn girl to cry.
Yet half a month passed.
There was no news at all.
And during these two weeks, the news was all about the scandals of his closest friends.
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Malcolm was kicked out of the Board of Directors by his brother.
The Zeller Group was investigated from top to bottom, and everyone in the Zeller family, including Harvey, was arrested.
Malcolm came to Evergreen Manor.
“Bray, where’s Angela? Where is she? I haven’t been able to find her for half a month.”
Braeden’s thick, dark brows furrowed tightly, and he replied coldly, “Angela isn’t at the villa, where else could she be? I’m so angry this time,
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she wouldn’t dare go anywhere else.”
But Malcolm was desperate: “Bray, Angela isn’t at the villa. I’ve been looking for her for a long time, and I couldn’t reach you by phone. That’s how I found out you were at Evergreen Manor.”
Not far away, Valerie’s eyes showed a trace of panic.
Braeden noticed Valerie.
During these two weeks, he had barely touched his phone, but Malcolm said he’d called many times without getting through.
Braeden was about to check his phone.
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Valerie immediately started crying, “Bray, I… I just wanted you to rest well. You just had so much blood replaced.‘
Braeden’s handsome face softened considerably.
That’s right, Valerie had given half her blood to him, and the other half to Angela.
She was the savior of both him and Angela.
Valerie had always cared about his health, and she hung up on Malcolm’s calls for his sake.
Braeden’s voice was deep and magnetic: “Malcolm, just go back to the Taylor family and look for her. What exactly happened?”
But Malcolm said, “Bray, Angela is missing.”
Braeden simply didn’t believe it. He knew all too well how attached Angela was to him.
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He also knew just how timid Angela was.
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Even if he hurt her, with their twenty–seven years of relationship, at most she’d be angry, not disappear.
The veins on Braeden’s forehead bulged, his eyes cold and gloomy. “Impossible! How could Angela leave me!”
