Chapter 2269

The white roses were now stained with crimson drops of blood.

"Let's end this." A few simple words, spoken so softly, shattered Asher's ironclad heart, leaving it in pieces too broken to even look at.

"Arnold... I won't let you leave me!" Asher trembled from head to toe. A storm unlike any other was raging in his usually composed eyes. "I know who I love! You were never anyone's substitute! Arnold. Don't leave me... I won't let you leave me!"

Asher was terrified, more than he had ever been.

Tears flowed as he begged, then he turned desperate, doing whatever he could to keep Arnold. He would try anything and accept anything, as long as the person he loved did not leave him again.

Asher had barely survived the first time. A second time would drive him to madness.

Asher's breath grew harsh, his reddened eyes filled with obsession. He opened his arms, desperate to embrace the man who was falling apart in front of him. As he leaned in, a sharp pain tore through his left eye. "Don't touch me!"

Arnold, overwhelmed and out of control, had grabbed another rose, its sharp stem slashing across Asher's left eye.

Luckily, Asher had closed his eyes just a second before, or the rose stem would have cut his eyeball, possibly even blinding him.

across Asher's eye. For a moment, the sight pulled him from

for him. But he forced himself to hold back. With a hoarse

about himself. Blood trickled down his pale face, but he pulled Arnold close with an almost savage

me that you won't

hollow as he allowed himself to be held. The warmth from Asher's embrace was now completely gone. "I admit it, I still

feel like I was playing the role of someone else every day by your side. Your

were an enviable pair. It's because of him that I was able to experience such a

Asher's body stiffened.

Asher.

Steven arrived, Arnold was already

room, Asher's tall figure remained kneeling, his back hunched, casting a

and she took a step back,

was still alive, but he looked like

Mr. Thompson and Dr. Larson?" Steven had asked her all the way there, but she had

for years and had

breath, Bella steadied herself. "Steve, wait outside.

but nodded, stepping outside to

eyes filling with tears. She kneeled beside him, gathering the scattered roses one by one. When she picked up a card, she saw the

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