Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 1143

"You stupid man."

Juniper blinked hard, forcing the moisture from her eyes as she traced the jagged cuts on his face. He lay perfectly still, his breathing steady but devoid of any real vitality.

"You know I'm going to be furious about this," she murmured, her voice laced with a cold edge. "Don't think I'll let you off the hook easily for lying to me. So you better wake up fast and beg for forgiveness. Otherwise, I swear I'll go out and find myself a toy boy. Hell, I'll find a new one every single day of the year. And I'll use your credit cards to pay for them, just to piss you off."

Shanley remained completely unresponsive.

"You have to get better." She gripped his hand tightly, pressing it against her cheek. Her voice cracked into a hoarse whisper. "If you don't wake up, how am I supposed to yell at you? How am I supposed to make you pay for this?"

"Shanley…" She lowered her eyelashes, burying her face so deeply into his palm that her expression was entirely hidden.

Outside the room, behind the one-way glass, Miranda watched the scene unfold, sobbing quietly against her husband's chest. "Honey, is our boy really going to be alright?"

"He will be," Hayden soothed, gently stroking his wife's hair. "The best doctor in the world is guarding him right now. Not even death itself could drag him away."

"She looks so broken…" Miranda's tears fell like shattered glass. "Should I go in and sit with her?"

Juniper was always so fiercely independent, never showing an ounce of vulnerability. But now, sitting beside the man she loved… she was definitely crying in there alone.

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