How to Destroy a Cheater Without Saying Goodbye novel Chapter 176

Loraine and Kelvin peered through the glass window, barely daring to believe what they saw—Eddy was already sitting up in bed.

They burst into the room in a panic, stunned to find Eddy upright, the anesthesia barely faded after his surgery. Every monitoring wire had been ripped from his body, and the white bandages around his abdomen were stained a deep red.

He flung back the covers, as if determined to get out of bed.

"Eddy, don't!" Loraine cried, rushing forward.

"You just had your stitches done! You can't move like that! Please, don't scare your mom!" She reached for him desperately, with Kelvin hurrying to help restrain Eddy.

The woman who had fallen to the floor finally scrambled up, moving closer. "E—"

Eddy glared at her, his voice raw with anger. "You're not my wife."

"You'll never take her place!"

"Get out!"

"Eddy, I really am—"

"My wife would've known about the wound on my abdomen. She would never have fallen on me, even by accident."

"She'd be terrified of hurting me, she—" Eddy struggled violently, his breathing ragged. "I need to find Laney!"

He fought against them with such force that his stitches tore open, blood oozing through the bandages. But it was as if he didn't feel the pain at all.

Loraine and Kelvin couldn't hold him down, no matter how hard they tried.

Thankfully, the commotion brought the doctors and nurses running. They sedated him quickly, forcing him to lie back.

When Eddy woke again, his eyes were glassy and distant.

Loraine slumped in a chair, at a loss for what to do next.

"Eddy, are you really going to just sit here and let Jacob steal The Simmons Group from under your nose?" she pleaded, her voice hoarse.

"Are you going to let him destroy everything we've built? Run our family out of the company?"

"All for a woman who abandoned you? Are you really going to turn your back on your aunt, on Healy, on all of us, your brothers?"

"It was just a single mistake in your marriage! You gave that woman everything—your whole heart, your entire world. And how did she repay you?"

"She handed The Simmons Group straight to Jacob. To the man you hate most in the world!"

"She's too cruel! Not only did she leave you to fend for yourself, she didn't care about Healy either. Eddy, a woman like that isn't worth dying for!" Kelvin's voice was sharp, almost desperate.

But in Eddy's mind, an image of Blanche at sixteen floated up—a gentle, innocent girl perched on a hospital windowsill, blooming like a peony in spring. When she saw him, she'd called out "big brother" with such sweetness.

He squeezed his eyes shut, desperate not to let her slip away. But the moment he did, all he could see was her broken silhouette as she walked away from him, heart shattered.

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