The Last Time I Cried Your Name novel Chapter 453

A knock echoed from the hospital room door.

Franco looked up, his dark gaze narrowing slightly.

He was here.

Taking his cue, Jay walked over and pulled the door open. Harris stood in the doorway dressed in a sharp black suit. His refined features seemed to carry the faint chill of the morning dew, his frame lean and imposing.

He took a few steps inside before spotting Franco propped up against the hospital bed.

Dressed in a standard hospital gown, Franco didn't look critically injured at first glance. Aside from a few scrapes on his face and an unusually pale complexion, he seemed like his normal self.

But the mere fact that he was confined to a hospital bed was enough to send a shockwave through anyone who knew him.

Franco was not a man who showed weakness unless his life was genuinely on the line. Sitting there, visibly laid out, was the greatest display of vulnerability Harris had ever seen from him.

At the thought, Harris frowned.

Was he really hurt that badly?

Jay escorted him over to the bed.

Watching these two former best friends—men who had turned against each other over a woman—now staring at one another in heavy silence, Jay felt numb to it. Galen, on the other hand, had wanted no part of this tension and had stayed behind in the ICU to watch over Abacus.

"You didn't show up to my engagement party the day before yesterday," Harris said, breaking the silence.

Franco's camp had kept the news of his injuries locked down tight. If Lauretta hadn't received a briefing from her military unit, Harris would have been completely in the dark.

On the very day he got engaged, Petty had been taken by Abbot's men.

Ever since he had thrown the engagement ring he once bought for Petty into the river, he had forced himself to stop following her life. Getting engaged to Lauretta was his choice. Now that he had taken that step, he knew he couldn't complicate Petty's world anymore.

But he never expected Franco to call him first thing this morning. Over the phone, the man had only said three words: I'm badly hurt.

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