Chapter 8
Although Gavin had betrayed me and broken my heart, his mother had always treated me like her own daughter-even before our marriage. It was largely because of her support that I ended up marrying him.
When I arrived at the hospital, she was already in critical condition. The doctors had issued several emergency notices. They needed immediate authorization and payment for expensive medication that might save her life.
I wanted so badly to sign those papers. I wanted to save her.
But I couldn’t.
Gavin and I were already divorced. I had no legal right anymore-not as a wife, not as a daughter-in-law. No matter how much I wanted to help, I couldn’t.
Gavin had been rushed to the ER himself after collapsing from stress and internal trauma-he had suffered a miscarriage and a severe head injury after falling. He was in no condition to sign anything, and with his father long deceased and no other relatives around, his mother had no one else.
30mbarded by the media and shunned online, Gavin had not only spiraled mentally but physically. His fall left him with brain trauma, and he needed immediate surgery. But while he was being operated on, his mother passed away-because no one could sign on her behalf in ime.
The doctors said she might have survived if she’d received treatment earlier.
watched it all happen from the hallway.
All of it… was because of him.
When Gavin woke from surgery and saw the medical report, his hands trembled. His eyes turned ed as he read the details.
When the doctor told him his mother had died despite all efforts, he froze. For a moment, it was as if the world had stopped.
Then he snapped.
You heartless bitch, Cassia!” he screamed, his voice hoarse and broken. “Why didn’t you save
her?!”
stared back coldly and replied, “Me? Don’t forget-it was you who divorced me. You severed hat tie.”
‘We’re nothing now. I had no right to sign, no right to pay. Her death… that’s on you.”
Gavin looked like he’d been punched in the gut. He crumpled, tears spilling freely, his body shaking with sobs.
I wondered if this was the moment he finally regretted leaving me.
he hadn’t insisted on the divorce, maybe his mother would still be alive. Maybe he wouldn’t have collapsed. Maybe none of this would have happened.
Just as I turned to leave, his broken voice stopped me.
“Wait! Where’s Sabrina? Did she come? Is she here?”
I shook my head, expressionless. “No.”
He refused to believe it. “That’s not true! She loves me. She must have come. You’re lying!”
Even now, after everything-after his mother died-he was still thinking about her.
Not mourning. Not grieving. Just obsessing over a woman who abandoned him.
It was pathetic.
f I had a son like that, I’d be furious too.
As I stepped out of the room, I received a message from Sabrina.
You can meet me-but only if you talk to Gavin first. You need to tell him everything. Who you eally are. Why you approached him.”
agreed.
Not because I owed either of them anything, but because I wanted to see what Gavin would do when he learned the truth.
invited Sabrina to the hospital room.
When she entered, Gavin’s face lit up as if he’d just seen salvation. He wiped his eyes, stumbled
ut of bed, and rushed to her.
Sabrina… I knew you’d come,” he whispered, clutching her hand like a lifeline. “I knew you stil oved me. Once I recover, let’s get married. I’ll give you everything, I swear—”
nd that’s when I realized…
This wasn’t just heartbreak. This was delusion.
Gavin had been living in a fantasy for far too long.
