Romance

The Love I Died For

by Sweetie Moore

My CEO fiancee, Lexi Wyndham, had no patience for incompetence, yet she repeatedly made excuses for her incompetent assistant, Lachlan Hayes.During the hiring process, she noticed that his profile looked remarkably similar to mine. Worried that our rivals might target me, she kept him on as my double, someone who could take my place whenever I was in danger.She bought him designer clothes, took him to exclusive events, and even put my projects under his name to build up his reputation.As time went on, she grew increasingly protective of him, insisting it was all so he would be willing to take my place when the time came.Then tensions with our rival company escalated. Lexi would rather send the bodyguards assigned to protect her to me than let Lachlan stand in for me.In the end, our rivals kidnapped me and locked me in a basement, where they tortured me for ten straight days. By the time I was rescued, there was not a part of me that was not badly injured. I had nearly died down there.The next day, Lachlan was diagnosed with liver disease.Lexi drugged me and forced me into the operating room to donate my liver to him.Her voice was gentle. "Lachlan has to be saved for the moment we truly need him to stand in for you. We can't use him too soon, or they'll get suspicious and everything we've done will be for nothing."He has to stay alive until the day we need him. I'm making you donate your liver for your own good. Don't overthink it. Once you're discharged, I'll marry you."But she did not know how badly I had been injured.The liver donation only made my condition worse, and I was already dying.I would not live long enough to see the wedding she had promised me.

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