Chapter 117 Vengeful

JORDAN
My knees grew weak and my legs buckled underneath me as I heard those words. Relief flooded my heart, and tears clouded my eyes in an instant. I leaned against the wall and closed my eyes, trying to shut out the pain I had felt before. Then, I allowed my heart to dance for a little bit. There was no scenario I had not thought of. Genesis was going to wake up and hate me for life. She was going to hate her life, and the beautiful smile she had always had on her face would disappear into nothingness. And I would disappear along with it. If she could not smile, what would be left of my miserable life? I had brought nothing but bad news to her, nothing but bad to her, and countless times she had been put in danger because of all this. Guilt had taken over me, and my chest was beginning to hurt at the thought of rubbing ill luck on her. But just now, the doctor had changed it all with just this one news.
“It must have been hard to have heard the kidnapper say something like that,” the doctor said, and I could only give him a nod.