The Don Loses His Memory and Me

When I opened my eyes again, the sharp smell of disinfectant hit me so hard that it made my stomach turn.

Elio was sitting by my bedside, his eyes bloodshot and his face so haggard that it was as if he had aged overnight.

He held my hand tightly, his voice breaking as he said, "Don't move. The doctor said the venom was deadly. If you had been brought in any later, I would've lost you. Isolde, I'm sorry. I was wrong. From now on, I won't leave your side. I won't let you get hurt again."

Tears streamed down his face as if he were truly distraught.

I simply closed my eyes and didn't respond. I couldn't be bothered to give him even the slightest reaction.

A nurse came in to change my dressing and sighed in admiration. "Your fiancé is so good to you. He stayed here for two days and two nights straight, and no one could get him to leave. His friends told him to go home and rest, but he wouldn't even listen."

I lowered my gaze and said nothing.

She would never know that the man crying like his heart was being ripped to shreds was the one who had started the game that nearly killed me.

In Elio's world, I had always been nothing more than a loyal pet, a tool used to please his true love.

As long as I didn't die, nothing else mattered.

This was already the 100th level, and he and Sofia were finally supposed to end up together. I didn't want to stand there and watch as they trampled all over my dignity to get there.

Thus, the moment Elio stepped out to pay the bill, I immediately called Mamma. "Mamma, send someone to pick me up, and set up the scene for the accident."

While I waited, a message from Sofia popped up on my phone, each word laced with venom.

"Isolde, I've got all the Astryx Tower blueprints now. Elio already destroyed the original files on your computer, and not a single copy was left. I'll finish your Papa's project under my name, and you'll never get credit for it."

Astryx Tower was Papa's lifelong dream and the result of countless sleepless nights I had poured into it. Elio knew better than anyone what it meant to me, and he still chose to destroy it himself.

I stared at the screen, then let out a laugh out of sheer anger before replying, "Sofia, let's meet up and settle this once and for all."

She agreed almost immediately. "Fine. I'd like to see you lose everything with my own eyes."

At that moment, the people Mamma had arranged arrived right on time.

I left my phone behind in the ward, the screen still showing my conversation with Sofia, and followed them out without hesitation.

The moment I stepped downstairs, I caught sight of Elio, who was holding a box of chocolates, the kind I used to love.

Unfortunately, I didn't love them anymore.

I didn't love him anymore either.

Mamma and I had it all planned out.

Elio had trampled on my sincerity and wasted seven years of my life, so I would fake my death and teach him a lesson he would never be able to forget.

A heart betrayed was a debt that could never be forgiven.