Burn the Marriage, Keep the Crown

Chapter 183

"Aaron?" Serena stared in panic at Aaron as he slowly approached, feeling as if someone had gripped her throat, making it hard to breathe.

Could it be that he already knew the secret beneath the old oak tree?

The mere thought that Aaron might have already seen those notes made her feel even more suffocated.

"How did you find this place?" she asked, trying to keep her voice steady.

"I followed you, of course," Aaron replied, narrowing his eyes. "You seemed so flustered, like you were hiding something."

Serena finally relaxed. It seemed Aaron had no idea about this spot after all.

This place was a discovery she made before she and Aaron were together. There was no way he could know about it.

Back then, she went to great lengths to find this little hollow, just to keep her sappy notes hidden from prying eyes.

"I'm not like Mr. Vance, spending my days doing shady things and suspecting everyone else of the same," she said, glancing at a large rock to ensure everything was in order before walking past Aaron, heading out of the grove.

seized Serena's wrist. "Do you really want to avoid

Mr. Vance exemplifies that perfectly. You

you'd be at

offering a faint smile. "Then... if we meet by chance, shouldn't the latecomer

stepping aside, Aaron had followed

have given her quite a scare. Aaron narrowed his eyes slightly, uncertain why he himself had ended up here. "Anyway, Mr. Vance,

feeling his heart sink

rock nearby, his gaze

He had just felt restless at

left behind the crowd of flatterers and wandered slowly around the campus, reminiscing about

walked, he found himself

when Serena was pursuing him, she would often dart to this grove, always in a hurry, like a

over the rock that Serena had clearly

found a multitude of small notes

up one and

but