Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 1375

But he went anyway.

Debbie had been transferred from intensive care to a regular VIP suite, though she remained unconscious. The doctor estimated she needed two more days to wake up, and Sebastian stood silently by her bed.

He stared down at her frail, pale figure. Her complexion was devoid of color, and her left hand was bandaged and useless. This was the first time he had seen her since the crash.

She looked pathetic, yet she was still breathing. She was stubbornly hard to kill.

Sebastian had known that since childhood. He remembered a time she had gambled away their last dime, leaving them nothing for food. Then her appendix burst. Unaware of the severity, she endured the excruciating pain for days. She pushed through until her appendix ruptured and she collapsed. Young Sebastian had run crying to the neighbors, begging them to take her to the hospital.

The surgeon warned she might not make it due to the severe infection. Yet, days later, she was miraculously walking around. A week later, she was discharged—only to sink them further into debt.

Memories flooded his mind as he stared at her face. He remembered the gnawing hunger, how he tied a rope tightly around his waist just to dull the ache in his stomach. But a rope couldn't provide nourishment. Once, he picked up a half-eaten roll a classmate had tossed aside. A group of boys laughed, pointing at him and calling him a dirty thief.

The humiliation and the starvation were permanently burned into his soul.

Even now, with a bank account so vast he couldn't spend it in a hundred lifetimes, with every luxury at his fingertips, he still harbored an all-consuming hatred for Debbie Harris.

Looking at her, Sebastian couldn't help but wonder: Why wouldn't she just die? Her body was failing on multiple fronts; why couldn't she just give out?

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