I just stood there woodenly outside the study door.
My whole body shaking like a leaf in the wind.
My face was deathly pale, streaked with tears.
Sophomore year, classmates dragged me into joining the drama club.
I learned a bit about acting.
Now it was all coming in handy.
“Harper…”
Kieran’s brows furrowed deeply, and when he spoke, his breathing seemed to skip a beat.
I stared at him blankly.
Then slowly shifted my gaze to Camden’s face.
I just looked at him without blinking, letting the tears flow straight down.
A man’s guilt toward a woman is an infallible weapon.
Opportunities vanish in an instant.
And right now was the perfect moment.
“Camden.”
I whispered his name softly.
“Harper…”
He instinctively stepped forward, but I suddenly stepped back: “Don’t come near me.”
“Harper, let me explain, I…”
“Camden, you were my first man, my first love.”
“You know how much I cared about you, how much I loved you.”
With each sentence, I slowly stepped backward.
“I could accept you changing your mind, not liking me anymore.”
“But I can’t accept you giving me away…”
“This past year with you, I was so happy, so blissful.”
“No one’s ever been as good to me as you were.”
“But it turns out I was just dreaming.”
“Harper, it’s not like that, let me explain, I can explain…”
I shook my head gently, tears falling right on cue: “Camden, my dream is over.”
“I’ll never dream again…”
As the last word fell, I suddenly turned and ran toward the second–floor balcony.
Below the balcony was a small garden.
The gardener had just tilled the soil yesterday.
I’d calculated the distance from the second floor to the ground.
Jumping down onto the soft soil, I’d only get minor injuries.
But the visual impact of jumping off a building would be shocking.
And I’d bet right.
When Kieran and Camden chased after me, I resolutely jumped from the window.
Without a moment’s hesitation.
As if I was determined to die.
I heard them shouting my name.
I couldn’t tell whose voice it was.
But it sounded heart–wrenching.
In that brief moment of rapid descent, I smiled mockingly.
The entire estate was in chaos.
Kieran, who was usually so untouchable, who never had a wrinkle on his shirts when he appeared in public, now had mud on his perfectly pressed trouser cuffs, but he didn’t care at all.
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He reached out wanting to hold me, but didn’t dare touch me.
I curled up on the muddy ground, my foot bone fractured at a twisted angle, swollen terrifyingly.
“Harper, don’t be scared, the ambulance will be here soon…”
Kieran tried hard to stay calm.
But his words still revealed anxiety and panic.
I lay on the ground with my eyes closed, biting my lip hard.
I wouldn’t even cry out in pain.
Camden seemed shocked by my condition.
He stood to the side like a statue.
The ambulance siren wailed in the distance.
Quickly approaching.
Only then did I endure the severe pain of broken bones and slowly open my eyes.
“I’m not going to the hospital.”
“Don’t save me.”
I spoke word by word, my forehead covered in sweat.
I looked at Camden, my lips bitten and bleeding.
He trembled all over, looking at me with bloodshot eyes.
“I never want to see you again, Camden.”
“Harper…”
Camden’s voice was hoarse as he slowly stepped forward.
I immediately looked away.
Then I looked at Kieran.
The moment I looked at him, my tears suddenly flowed torrentially.
“I don’t want to see you again either, Kieran.”
When a man and woman share physical intimacy, the man will always feel some tenderness toward that woman.
That’s exactly what I wanted from him–that bit of tenderness.
“Go to the hospital first, Harper… be good.”
“If you don’t promise me, I won’t go to the hospital.”
“This isn’t the time to be stubborn.”
Kieran pressed his throbbing temple, “Let the paramedics put you on the stretcher, don’t move, Harper!”
But I wouldn’t listen. Where my leg bone was broken, the flesh was torn and bleeding.
That blood slowly trickled over the old scar on my calf.
Staining that faded flower red.
Kieran’s pupils suddenly contracted, and for a moment, his entire face seemed to lose all color.
“Stop moving.”
He looked at me steadily, his voice very soft.
Like a petal falling silently in the deep night.
“I promise you.”
“Camden and I will never appear in front of you again.”
I used all my strength to smile at Kieran.
As the severe pain hit again and I fell unconscious, I said my last words to him.
“Big brother, I’m only trusting you this once.”
