I Slept with My Boss and Ran Away

Audrey was worried and wanted to find Terrence. She called Grandma Sterling and learned that Terrence was hospitalized in the neighboring hospital. Taking advantage of Pete and Spencer's absence, Audrey removed the IV needle from her hand and tried to sneak out.

Just as she stepped out of her room, Pete returned. "Where are you going?"

"I..." Audrey stammered.

Pete immediately guessed, "You're going to see Terrence? I won't allow it. You just had surgery. What if he gets angry and hurts you when he finds out you're not Meredith?"

Audrey replied, "I can't hide. Terrence fell ill because of me. I owe this to Meredith."

"You don't owe anyone anything. Meredith couldn't have been saved anyway. Even if it wasn't her heart, it would have been someone else's," Pete said. "Either way, I'm not letting you go."

"Pete, how can you be so cold-blooded?" Audrey was angry. "Meredith had no obligation to save me. I used her heart, so I owe her."

"Audrey..."

"Move aside." Audrey pushed Pete away; she had to go.

Pete said, "Do you like Terrence? But he won't like you back. It's good enough if he doesn't hate you." Pete's words were brutally honest.

Audrey knew well that Terrence hated her. She had become one of those responsible for Meredith's death.

Without saying anything further, Audrey insisted on leaving and took a cab to the neighboring hospital.

She was still wearing her hospital gown, with bandages wrapped around her head, and her wounds were faintly aching, but she didn't care. Her mind was filled with thoughts of Terrence. She was anxious and unsure if the anxiety was hers or Meredith's.

Audrey only knew she had to see Terrence. Perhaps this would be their last meeting. Whether she was Audrey or Meredith, she needed to give him an explanation-a formal one.

In the hospital, Stella couldn't stay in the ward any longer and was wiping tears in the hallway while Harvey spoke with the doctor.

Terrence was alone in the ward, lying on the bed, his face ashen.

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When Stella saw Audrey, for a moment she thought it was Meredith and instinctively called out, "Meredith..."

Then she corrected herself, "Audrey."

"Auntie, I'm sorry for deceiving you all before," Audrey sincerely apologized first. "How is Terrence?"

"He's inside getting an IV drip; his fever hasn't gone down yet. It's really a broken heart," Stella said. "He was holding on by sheer willpower before. Now that he knows Meredith is truly gone, he's collapsed." The doctor had examined Terrence and found liver damage.

When a person is heartbroken to the extreme, it can indeed harm their internal organs.

Audrey asked, "Can I go in and see him?"

"Go ahead," Stella said. Although she hated Audrey for deceiving them, looking at her face so similar to Meredith's, she couldn't say a harsh word in the end. "Maybe he'll listen to you."

After all, Audrey's face was identical to Meredith's.

However, Stella was wrong. When Audrey entered the ward and Terrence saw her, his eyes showed not tenderness or affection but disgust and hatred.

No one but Meredith deserved that face.

"Get out!" Terrence's eyes were bloodshot.

Audrey was shaken by the intense hatred in Terrence's eyes.

He hated her so much.

Gathering her courage, Audrey approached the bed and said, "Mr. Sterling, I'm deeply sorry for deceiving you. Regarding how I met Meredith and what happened then, I think it's necessary to explain it again. When I saved Meredith back then, she was already near death. She refused to contact her family because she probably didn't want you all to be sad..."

"I know saying this now is like stabbing your heart, but I also know that no matter what, you want to know what Meredith experienced in her final moments-what happened and what she said."

Terrence listened in agony; each word from Audrey felt like a steel nail piercing his body repeatedly until he was riddled with wounds.