HATE ME LIKE YOU LOVED ME..

Chapter 4 THE PRICE OF PRIDE

Word Count: 736 | Released on: 15/09/2026

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gripped the doorframe to stay upright. The machines beside his bed

his bed, the d

we talk in

her mind still fixed on the r

he looke

heckups before. What happened? Wh

y, her hands twisting the hem of her blouse

afford it, and Ray was already in a di

silence sit a momen

her needs a bone marrow transplant, urgently. With medication, he could have held on until you

ld floor, her hands pressed flat against the tiles a

ped her up and

to grieve," he said.

hospital, her mind already racing through every name she c

all Raymond, but her hand fe

he couldn't add to that, not now, not when he had already

e ran to he

me a week's pay?" she as

looked up,

a week's pay when

g out faster than she meant them to. The woman

ll be fine

to her second job, hopin

ged, "Please, my brother is dying," but the woman wo

ife and death ha

running down her face, every refusal she'd fac

ut the thought of standing near

He turned his phone over in his hand again and again, che

usted, but no one had the money to

he deadline on Alfie's o

" she whispered. "No

forward. Every step she took felt heavier than the last, as thou

though none of them knew what had broken her, or that the woman stumbling

tes, the gatekeeper blocked her

t me see Alfie. I want to talk to him. I am

rd, and she pressed her forehead

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“BLURB Five years ago, Amelia Doughty made a choice that destroyed two lives. She walked away from the man who loved her, leaving him broken, betrayed, and fighting for his life. To the world, the past was buried. To Alfie, it never ended. Now a powerful business tycoon feared by everyone around him, Alfie has only one goal after crossing paths with Amelia again...to make her experience the same hell he has lived through ever since she abandoned him. But Amelia is no longer the woman he remembers. Struggling to keep her younger brother, Elias, alive, she is forced to swallow her pride and accept a job as Alfie's personal secretary after every other door closes. Bound by a contract she cannot escape, she walks straight into the hands of the man who hates her the most. Every day becomes a battle between revenge and survival. As Alfie slowly tears apart the walls around Amelia, long-buried memories begin to resurface. The accident that destroyed their future and the mysterious text message. The secrets surrounding Elias and Raymond, the loyal best friend who seems determined to protect Amelia at any cost, while hiding dangerous secrets of his own. But the deeper Alfie digs into the past, the more questions surface. What if the woman he has hated for years never betrayed him at all? In a world where love has become revenge, loyalty hides deception, and every truth comes with a price, Amelia and Alfie must confront a past neither of them truly understands, before it destroys them for good.”