Eliana's sobs deepened, a torrent now, her lips brushing his ear as she clung tighter, her natural elegance dissolving into unfiltered emotion. Tears soaked his hospital gown, her honey-brown eyes squeezing shut against the flood. "Rafael... oh, my Rafael." She pulled back just enough to cup his face, thumbs tracing the hollows of his cheeks, her voice a whisper fractured by love's weight. "I'm the one who's sorry. For everything I said last night—the anger, the divorce threats. I was scared, hurt by the lies, the manipulations that kept me bound when I wanted... freedom. But seeing you here, pale and still, machines beeping like they might stop... I realized it in my bones. I can't live without you. Not ever. The world without your sarcasm, your walls cracking just for me... it's empty. I forgive you. All of it. No more divorce. We're in this—chains or not, but together. Forever."
