While she verbally agreed to go along with him, her actions clearly showed she was picking fights at every turn. Even a blind man could see their relationship was on the rocks. Selena couldn't help but laugh in frustration. Was he seriously playing the victim now?

She didn't bother arguing. Instead, she looked up at him with a blank expression and said, "It's tough to swallow something you don't like, isn't it? I've been forcing myself to stomach things I hate for three years for your sake, and you can't even handle one lousy meal?" She scoffed, "You're quite the delicate flower, aren't you?"

Everett was caught off guard by her bringing up old grievances and snapped back, "Who tgold you to bend over backward for me? Did I twist your arm?"

In his memory, she was always smiling, seemingly content. When did that change?

"Right, you didn't ask me to, and you didn't force me."

Selena nodded with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "So, you're saying it's all on me, that I'm just being stupid."

Everett was taken aback.

enchanting with stars in

as he was about to clarify, she continued. "Who

"I've woken up now, haven't I? If I could go back, I wouldn't have agreed to marry

was like a stab to his heart, especially the last sentence, which hit a nerve

then

"Anyone would be better- than you. If

of rushing to the hospital and watching

vast, cold world, she wandered alone, cold, tired, and

she desperately longed for someone to be by her side, for a

ago, when the Bennetts came with a proposal, she thought she'd found her salvation. She pinned all her hopes on Everett, but he

words hitting

the wall, pinning her hands above her head, and kissed her

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