A Heart For Nothing

“Camille, I’ll love you forever!”

Jameson let out a low, agonized growl. Just as he was about to climax, his phone suddenly began to buzz. He ignored it, of course. Now was hardly the time.

However, his phone lit up again. The moment he saw the text on the screen, his body froze.

Camille heard him answer the call. “Hello?”

In the deep silence of the night, the voice on the phone cut through the stillness, clear and unmistakable. “Jameson, did you know that Sylvia—”

Jameson switched languages and cut in with a sharp command, “Keep it down. It's not a good time.”

The other person switched languages too, though he was still loud. “The hospital results came in. Sylvia is in the final stages of cancer. She only has a month left! Her last wish is to become your wife. Can you grant her that before she passes?”

Jameson’s expression changed immediately. “What?! Wait for me!”

He ended the call and turned to Camille. “Camille, something urgent came up. I need to step out for a bit. Be good and stay home. I’ll be back after you’ve had some sleep.”

Before she could respond, he rose to wash up, changed his clothes, and left without looking back.

Moments later, her phone buzzed.

Sylvia: [Camille, you lost. I told you—Jameson has always been mine.]

Right above it was a message from three days ago: [If I tell him I have cancer, do you think Jameson will leave you and come to me? I bet he will.]

Camille’s gaze slowly shifted from her phone screen to the open bedroom door. What Jameson did not know was that she had already picked up a new language. She understood every word of that call.

After a long moment, a faint, bitter smile appeared on her face.

“Yeah, I lost...”

Memories of every little moment she shared with Jameson flooded her mind.

Jameson was the genius young heir of the Hart family, the richest in South City, while Camille Fields was just a village girl from the mountains.

One summer at the age of 17, she found Jameson after he had fallen off a cliff. She had never seen someone so handsome and refined.

Camille brought him back to her home and took care of him.

When he woke up, he was blind and had lost his memory. He stayed at her house for over a year, and only after regaining his memory did he contact the Hart family with her help.

Jameson confessed his love to her, asking her to return to the Hart family with him and promising to stay by her side for the rest of his life.

Camille was so overwhelmed with emotion that she followed him to South City without a second thought.

It was only later that she learned that Jameson’s fall was not an accident.

His ex-girlfriend, Sylvia Gray, had taken him on a hiking trip. Jameson fell off the cliff while trying to save her.

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