"At the very least," Aurora said through gritted teeth, "I won't kill myself. I'm not depraved, I just care too much about you. How can trying to save someone else be an act of depravity?"

"You're right," Theodore said sarcastically. "I was wrong. You're not depraved. You're being cheap."

Aurora looked as though she was struck by lightning. "What...what did you say?"

She didn't expect Theodore to say something so harsh.

"Was I wrong to say that?" Every word of his was sharp and incisive, piercing through Aurora's heart. "Crying over a man who doesn't love you, even asking him to yell at you and hit you. You're even harboring hopes of saving me? Are you even fit to do so? Do you think of yourself as a savior? Just look at yourself, getting moved to tears by yourself."

He deliberately insulted her in an attempt to wake her up from her dream and tell her clearly that he would never fall for her.

She was merely wasting her time on him, and she would only end up in pain. He would never give her a sliver of hope or even a happy ending.

Theodore never intended to toy with her feelings.

Aurora couldn't stop the tears from falling. "You're right, I am cheap! I..."

clutched her

on Theodore's face. He dragged his weak body out of the bed, and helped her up. He turned around and shouted,

eyes slowly and saw Theodore in a hospital gown, standing by

was a mobile IV drip next to him, and

blinked. "Mr. Spencer,

looked exhausted.

and leaned against the headboard, looking at her surroundings. "I'm still

sorry. I shouldn't have said what I said about

his words earlier. Aurora had become so agitated, it triggered her heart ailment and almost

him, but what he did put her

you sometimes. Mr Spencer, isn't that the same for you? You're

be bothered to think so much when one was in love? It didn't

taken by another, pain and happiness would coexist One would find it hard to extricate himself from it. He would, in fact, lose control

was what others called 'cheap', there was bound to be no

that might make one cheapen oneself, especially in

pain, happiness, joy,

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