Chapter 283. Risking His Life To Protect Her

Jasper lay back down, his gaze fixed on the woman before him, the fading bruises on her face making his heart ache with guilt.

“I’m sorry, Eliza. Please forgive me for all the wrongs I’ve done to you...”

Jasper’s eyes turned red. The one thing he had never given Eliza was an apology.

Years ago, when he returned to The Vanderbilt Family in Raymond’s place, he had to face the woman who had once been deeply in love with his brother. For him, it was an unbearable torment.

He could never betray Raymond. His only choice was to push Eliza away, rejecting her relentlessly.

Her repeated doubts, their endless arguments, his cruel words—he had broken her heart time and time again, until she finally fell from that cliff.

He had reached out, tried to grab her hand, but she had slipped through his fingers. Watching her plummet, he had felt like a sinner condemned.

Even when she returned after eighteen years, alive against all odds, he had not welcomed her