From Ruin She Rose novel Chapter 97

Chapter 97

Yvonne froze. Ever since she’d known Xavier, he had always been the picture of an easygoing, amiable gentleman. This was the first time she’d seen him so irritable and impatient.

Yvonne studied Xavier for a moment, then asked suspiciously, “Don’t tell me you’ve gotten too invested in this act and actually fallen for that impostor?”

Xavier scowled in irritation. “What the hell does it matter to you whether I like her or not? I need to rest now. Get

out!”

“You!” Yvonne was about to protest, but Xavier simply pulled the covers over his head and lay down. Without another word, he pressed the call button for the nurse, explicitly having her removed from the room.

Kicked out of the room, Yvonne stomped her foot angrily. ‘Has that Jenkins guy lost his mind?’ she fumed.

Yvonne thought, ‘He was the one who couldn’t wait to impress Lydia, vowing to personally teach Emily such a humiliating lesson that she’d never dare show her face in public again.

‘Yet when it really mattered, he chickened out at the last minute and gave up halfway, leaving me stuck in this impossible position.’

She had promised Lydia, right in front of Vincent, that she’d make Emily pay, and there was no way she was going to break her word.

Yvonne shot one last venomous glare at the closed hospital room door before storming off in a rage.

No sooner had Yvonne left than Sofia stepped out of the elevator and entered the room alone.

After several days of recuperating and wrestling with his thoughts, Xavier finally sought out Emily. However, instead of going to the Bennett villa, he headed to the shop where she worked.

He ordered a meal and sat brooding in a corner, waiting for Emily to finish her shift. His troubled expression made the owner so uneasy, he started to worry the guy was there looking for trouble.

Emily knew exactly why he had come. After her shift ended, she walked straight to Xavier’s car and got in without hesitation.

The car sat idling on the curb, both of them wrapped in heavy silence.

Finally, Xavier was the first to break the silence. “That day, when you said he’d already died six months ago, was it

true?”

He knew asking was pointless, but he couldn’t help clinging to that faint glimmer of hope.

Emily turned her head to look at him. “If I said it wasn’t true, would you even believe me?”

Xavier sank into heavy silence. After a long silence, he finally spoke, his voice raw and hoarse. “Where is he now? I mean his remains. What happened to them?”

Tears welled up in his eyes. In that moment, all his defenses crumbled, and he made no effort to hide his vulnerability.

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Chapter 97

He looked utterly broken, but Emily felt not an ounce of pity. “I don’t know,” she said coldly.

Xavier refused to believe it. He thought, ‘She said he died right in front of her that day, so how could she not know?’

Emily met his gaze unflinchingly. “I truly don’t know. At St. Gabriel Reform Academy, anyone who dies is wheeled straight to the operating table. Their organs were harvested and transplanted into who knows whose bodies.

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