My coldhearted ex demands a remarriage

Chapter 549:

Even with the best surgical methods available, there was no hiding the brutality of it.

Kristopher’s chest tightened.

His mind drifted back to when they had first married, and Carrie had seemed like a porcelain doll—delicate, unblemished, perfect.

Her skin had been flawless, without so much as a freckle, let alone a scar.

She had been untouched, untarnished, a vision of beauty.

And now? In the span of just a few months, her body bore the evidence of pain.

The burns from the fire had barely faded, and here she was again—another scar etched onto her fragile form.noveldrama

Kristopher had touched every inch of her skin.

He had kissed it, memorized it.

Now, as he looked at her, all he saw was a broken doll.

The ache in his heart was unbearable.

He had sworn to protect her this time.

He thought he’d accounted for everything, every possible threat.

Yet somehow, she had suffered again, and because of him.

Kristopher had been the one to hire the best lawyer to ensure the man received the harshest sentence.

He’d arranged for the man’s life in prison to be miserable—the guards, the inmates, every detail had been orchestrated.

The man had come for Kristopher.

But in the end, it was Carrie who had paid the price.

The memory of it gnawed at him like a wolf at the edge of his conscience.

He should have acted differently—taken the man abroad, eliminated him quietly, cleanly.

Instead, Kristopher had chosen the more complicated path, and this was the result of his oversight.

Worse, he hadn’t even known the man had been released early.

That one slip had cost them everything.

Kristopher regretted the wedding location most of all—the remote forest.

It had been picturesque, yes, but utterly unsafe.

Carrie had always been delicate, her smallest discomfort enough to overwhelm her.

And yet, in these two worst moments—the fire and now this gunshot—she hadn’t shed a single tear.

Not one!

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