Max’s eyes lit up with hope when he saw me, but his throat could only make hoarse sounds.
I walked over, smiled at him, and took out a stack of pictures.
“Are you curious about who took these pictures of you? It was me. I made this gift for you ahead of time. Do you like it?”
“Did your pig brain really think I’d take you back after you left me?”
“What makes you better than Ryan? Look at how messed up you are in the mirror!”
I spoke to him one word at a time.
Max’s eyes slowly lost their light until he was lying on the bed, not caring about what I said.
After I finished yelling at him, I turned to look out the window. “Come in now!”
Max looked at me in confusion, then at the door.
Two police officers came in, showed Max their badges, and were polite.
“Hi, you’re involved in a serious assault case. Please work with us.”
Max’s eyes were on me, and his mouth was trying to say something.
Sadly, Clara had hurt his throat, so he couldn’t say a word.
He lay on the hospital bed like a lamb waiting to be killed, waiting for his fate.
The police were still officially taking Max’s statement when I left the hospital.
But Max couldn’t even say anything.
Max was sent to jail after getting basic care for his injuries.
Without proper long-term care, the burns on his body kept getting infected. His whole body was affected in some way.
Max was taken to the hospital with a high fever after spending a month in jail.
I sent the best burn doctors in the country to help him right away, no matter what the cost.
Three months later, doctors were able to take skin from his back and buttocks to cover the burned areas. But his face would never look the same again.
He could talk again after the treatment, but his voice sounded like a broken bell.
Finally, he was given the go-ahead to leave.
Doctors at the hospital told Max that a nice person had saved him by paying for his care.
He thought about who it could be until he saw me. At that point, he finally got it.
He didn’t think I would still have feelings for him after everything that had happened. “You saved me? What do you want?”
I sat in my fancy car and looked at my new manicure. There was a monster outside with scars all over it.
“You did this to yourself, so enjoy it!”
“This is what you get for leaving me three years ago. Don’t think I’ve been missing you; I just like to finish what I start.
I threw my water bottle out the window.
It hit Max right in the head, knocking his hat off.
People who walked by the hospital screamed when they saw Max’s face.
“That must be a monster! Those marks on his face are so scary!”
“Why doesn’t this freak stay home instead of coming out to make people sick? If there weren’t police around, I’d kick him away myself!”
“What bad luck to see such a gross thing!”
Max quickly bent down to get his cap after hearing these mean words.
He had to try a few times to put it back on while people were making fun of him.
I saw the police push him into the patrol car. I rolled up my window and sped past them.
As my car turned the corner, Max looked up and saw me.
He was then brought back to jail to finish his sentence. A lot of people were interested in the case because the judge had given him five years for hitting me.
He would have a lot to deal with in jail.
Ryan, who hadn’t been around much lately, was reading the newspaper on the couch when I got home. When he saw me come back, he came over and spun me around in his arms.
“Are you happy now? You even paid for his treatment. If you ask me, you shouldn’t have bothered with him!”
I kissed Ryan on the cheek when I saw that he was jealous.