Billionaire's Match

Chapter 947

In the end, Khloe couldn’t bring herself to be truly ruthless.

Nick had been right-if she couldn’t let go, there was no reason to force herself.

She couldn’t forgive her mother for abandoning her. She couldn’t accept that Barney, as her brother, had colluded with Angela against her. Yet, at the same time, she couldn’t simply watch a family member die.

Before coming to the hospital, Khloe had wrestled with herself. Maybe walking away silently would spare her and Barney the awkwardness of facing each other again. But Nick had seen through her thoughts.

He knew what Khloe wanted wasn’t decisiveness; she just couldn’t untangle the knot in her heart, couldn’t persuade herself to confront it.

“Everyone has their faults and struggles,” Nick had said. “You don’t have to forgive anyone, and you mustn’t be hard on yourself.”

Her mother’s abandonment wasn’t forgivable, but it had already doomed her to a life of pain she could not redeem herself from-she had already faced her own reckoning.

Barney was just a mortal, prone to selfishness and blinded by emotion. Khloe didn’t need to forgive him out of familial obligation, but she also couldn’t let their mistakes trap her.

wished for her to act in accordance with her own

weighed heavily on Barney, sinking him to the very depths

you to accept me as family. I won’t ask for your forgiveness. I just want you to know that from now on… if you need me,

face, Khloe felt her heart

treatment. So… you should focus on getting better. Recover as soon as you

was momentarily stunned. He hadn’t expected her to speak like

she didn’t dislike him

forcing a smile. “Go ahead without worry. I’m fine. The doctors say there’s nothing serious. And I’m

and didn’t say

atmosphere grew quiet again, tense and

you… look for me for a long

red. He almost let tears fall, but he quickly lowered

nodded.

everything she wanted to know-and even the things

of the sorrow she had left unspoken. Even if it was late, he wanted