leonardwarren Chapter 718: Lie Exposed
Chapter 718: Lie Exposed
He looked toward Ember before quietly asking,
"Alana left with Ivy?"
Ember briefly exchanged glances with the others before smiling naturally.
"Yes. Still, Alana should be returning soon."
Hearing that, Silas slowly nodded.
Afterward, he quietly accepted the food and began eating in silence.
Nobody disturbed him further.
Still... the strange feeling inside Silas’s heart refused to disappear completely.
Eventually, everyone slowly left the room one after another to allow him to rest.
Once the door finally closed, silence completely filled the room.
Silas remained sitting there motionless for nearly an hour.
Finally, he slowly reached for his phone.
Without hesitation, he dialed Ivy’s number.
The phone rang only twice before the call connected.
Soon, a familiar voice echoed from the other side. "Hello, Silas..."
The voice sounded slightly fatigued. "Have you finally woken up?"
The moment Silas heard it, his eyes narrowed slightly.
He remained silent briefly before softly asking, "Why does your voice sound a little strange?"
There was a short pause. Then the voice answered calmly,
"It’s nothing. I’m just a bit tired."
A faint laugh followed afterward.
"I used too much energy while helping heal you, so I suffered some side effects. But it’s nothing serious. Don’t worry about me. I’ll return within the next four days."
Silas remained silent again. Finally, he quietly replied, "Okay."
Then, after a brief pause, he softly added, "I miss you, darling."
"I miss you too."
The moment those words entered his ears, Silas slowly closed his eyes.
A bitter expression quietly appeared on his face.
Without saying another word, he ended the call.
After several long seconds, Silas leaned back against the bed while staring quietly toward the ceiling.
If he still could not recognize that the person on the other side was not actually Ivy... then all those years of obsessively simping for her would truly have been meaningless.
Silas knew only one thing, and that was that if Ivy did not contact him and tell him about her current condition, he would never be able to know what state she was in.
Because of that, he had no choice but to wait helplessly.
Time passed painfully slowly, and before he realized it, two entire days had already flashed by.
Yet there was still no sign of Ivy returning.
By the second night, he already felt as though he could no longer function properly.
Unable to endure it any longer, he began asking the family members around him if they had heard anything about Ivy.
However, after watching his own desperation spiral out of control, Asher finally reached a point where he could no longer hide the truth.
Left with no other choice, he confessed everything to Silas about Ivy’s situation.
The moment Silas learned the truth, fury exploded inside him.
If he were given the opportunity, he truly wanted to kill every single person responsible for pushing things to such a disastrous state, the same people who had reduced his wife to such weakness.
’I failed her...’
That single thought echoed repeatedly inside his head like a curse.
As her husband, he felt utterly useless.
Taking in a deep breath, Silas forcefully suppressed the murderous urge raging inside him.
Soon afterward, he used the access Ivy had once granted him to her temporal storage.
His eyes quickly swept across the surroundings.
At first, he came across a foreigner lying motionless on the ground, already dead.
However, Silas merely glanced at him indifferently before walking past. Right now, nothing mattered more than Ivy.
His footsteps quickened.
Soon, he arrived at one of the rooms where he and Ivy had once spent a great deal of time together.
Then he saw her.
Ivy lay quietly on the bed, completely motionless.
Her face was pale, almost frighteningly so, and her breathing was so faint that for a terrifying second, Silas nearly thought she had already stopped breathing altogether.
His heart skipped violently.
He rushed toward her and immediately checked her pulse with trembling fingers.
After a few unbearable seconds, he finally noticed a weak heartbeat.
Relief crashed into him so intensely that his knees nearly gave out.
"She’s alive..." he whispered hoarsely.
However, that relief did not last long because he quickly realized that Ivy was trapped in a coma and showed absolutely no signs of waking up.
Silas sat beside her silently for a very long time.
Eventually, he leaned down gently and pressed a soft kiss against her forehead.
Soon afterward, his eyes gradually moistened.
As he stared at Ivy lying there lifelessly, trapped somewhere between life and death, he finally understood what Ivy must have felt back then whenever she saw him severely injured.
Thinking back carefully, Ivy must have been utterly terrified.
After all, she had already lost him once before.
How could she possibly endure witnessing him die all over again?
The mere thought alone was enough to make his breathing uneven.
Taking another deep breath, Silas lowered his head beside her ear and whispered softly, "Ivy... please wake up. I truly cannot bear seeing you like this anymore."
Unfortunately, Ivy showed no response whatsoever.
Four entire days passed just like that.
During those four days, Ivy never moved even once.
As time continued passing, everyone outside gradually became worried as well.
Helena and Victor especially looked visibly exhausted from stress and fear.
They desperately wanted to enter the temporal storage and check on Ivy themselves, but only Silas possessed access to it.
Because of that, there was nothing they could truly do except wait anxiously outside.
Eventually, Helena and Victor even knelt before the goddess they worshipped. Their hands trembled while they prayed desperately.
"Please... please save Ivy," Helena muttered weakly, tears sliding down her cheeks.
Victor lowered his head as well and whispered painfully,
"As long as she recovers, we are willing to bear whatever karma comes afterward. We will accept everything."
Unfortunately, the goddess they prayed to seemed completely unmoved.
Even after another entire week passed, Ivy still showed no signs of regaining consciousness.
Finally, unable to endure the uncertainty anymore, Silas directly questioned the temporal storage itself about what exactly was happening to Ivy.
The temporal storage quickly revealed the truth.