Chapter 870

Outside the car, the cold breeze blew the leaves away.

Adina looked down and said in a calm voice, “Whenever we’re at our most intimate moments, a mechanical female voice appears in my mind. The first time it appeared, it asked me to jump off the building. Later, as I grew closer to you, that voice asked me to leave you or forced me to spew nonsense…”

She yanked at the strands of hair that had dropped on her brow. “I cannot resist that voice’s order no matter how hard I try, so I have to do what it says. Otherwise, my head hurts so bad until I give in to it. It is so excruciatingly painful that I sometimes wish I could just kill myself to end the pain.”

“Addy…”

Duke did not know what to say. He hugged Adina close trying to transmit all his warmth and energy to her.

He could not take away her pain. But when he saw her so lost and helpless, he felt his heart constrict. Seeing her in pain hurt him so much that it felt as if a knife was thrust in his heart.

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