“I had to attend to a social obligation, and I drank a little.” John smiled when he met Anne’s gaze. He sat next to her on the bed and put his arm around her shoulder.

She had lost so much weight that all he could feel were her bones poking through her skin. Although she had always been a slender woman in the past, she was at least healthy. Alas, that was no longer the case.

John sighed. “Robyn told me you’d slept. Why aren’t you asleep, then?”

Anne pursed her lips and began typing on her phone feebly. [ I heard everything you said to Robyn.]

John was silent for a moment before he kissed her forehead. “Anne, I truly think that…you wouldn’t have ended up this way if it weren’t for me.

blamed you for getting mixed up with the wrong crowd and even turned down Joshua’s help, but the truth is, I can’t help blaming myself for everything. If you hadn’t chosen to be with me and had settled

to be friends with. It’s your freedom, after all. I was acting impulsively because I was too angry at myself for being such a

as he spoke.

lip and shook her head. She cupped John’s face with her bony hands and gazed at him as though trying to tell him that it was not

Joshua. Bonnie is Luna’s friend too,

of pulling John out of his negative emotions, so she decided to

so much about the surgeries. Why don’t we just give up trying? Even if I undergo all the surgeries, there’s no guarantee that I’ll return to my normal health, and eventually, I’ll burden you and Sammie. Instead of spending all this money

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