Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 663:

In the end, she completely broke down. She couldn’t keep hiding any longer, and all the feelings she had been bottling up came pouring out. She leaned against the wall and wept. Jeffrey walked over and embraced her.

The sound of Rachel’s sobs echoed down the long, empty corridor as the siblings clung to each other, enveloped by a sorrow so profound it almost drowned them.

Rachel could do nothing more than cry in that moment. Every time she tried to utter a word, it came out as a choked sob.

Jeffrey was much calmer than she expected. Perhaps, over the course of the past few days, what with the doctor’s urgent treatments and the constant tension in the hospital room, he had already guessed his fate. Now, all his suspicions had been confirmed.

After a long while, Rachel finally calmed down. She lifted her head and wiped the tears from her face. In stark contrast to her pale and haggard appearance, her eyes were red and puffy.

Jeffrey’s heart ached for her. “Rachel, you have to take care of yourself. I can’t keep worrying about you when I finally pass.”

Just like that, Rachel’s emotions spiraled out of control once again.

“It’s okay. I’m all grown up now. I’m not that little kid who always followed you around anymore. You should have just told me as it is. I’m heartbroken that I can’t grow old with you, of course, but I…”

Jeffrey was also crying at this point, but he still forced a smile. “But that was exactly why I wanted to know how much longer I have left. I don’t want to waste a single day, a single minute. I want to make the most of the time we still have together.”

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Rachel still couldn’t speak, so she simply nodded in agreement.

“You know, I always wondered why you still married Brian,” Jeffrey continued in a pensive tone. “Now, I understand. It was all for me. You wanted to get pregnant in order to save me.”

He knelt on the floor and held onto his sister tightly. “I’m sorry. If it weren’t for me, you would have never had to sacrifice so much of yourself.”

“Stop it. Come on, get up,” Rachel said, trying to brush away his guilt.

“No, Rachel. It’s your turn to listen to me. My greatest wish for you is to be happy, healthy, and content in life. That’s all I wanted. But you’ve given up your happiness for my sake. I don’t want you to keep living like this. I want my sister back—the one who was always full of joy and hope. Leave him, Rachel. I won’t go through any treatment. Just be with me. Let’s travel, see the world, spend the last days of my life together. What do you say?”noveldrama

Despite knowing that Jeffrey’s days were already numbered, Rachel still couldn’t bring herself to give up on his treatment. She couldn’t do it. She couldn’t bear to watch him die.

It pained her to even think about it.

Rachel was wracked with a fresh bout of sobbing, but finally, she stubbornly shook her head.

Jeffrey hugged her legs and looked up at her through his own tears. His expression was one of hopeful innocence. “I’m begging you, Rachel,” he pleaded. “Please give me this one thing. I don’t want to spend the time I have left on a hospital bed. What is the point of going on if I’m just a living shell of my old self? I don’t want to ply my body with medicine and injections, to be wheeled in and out of the emergency room every single day. And I don’t like having to shave my head. I don’t like seeing you get consumed by grief every time you visit. Besides, I hear that the treatment is painful. You know I’m scared of pain, right? This world is such a wide and beautiful place, and I have barely even seen it. Rachel…”

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