Nine months too late: After divorce by Baby Charlene

Chapter 123

Sylvie lifted her hand to ring the doorbell for what felt like the tenth time, but like before, she lowered her hand, unable to do it.

She's been there for more than five minutes but still hadn't gotten the guts to ring the bell and confront Cindy.

'You can do this, Sylvie.' a voice whispered in her head.

'No, you can't. You couldn't do anything four years ago, remember?'

She wagged her head, trying to shake off the voices.

Finally, she gave it up. She'd never be able to do this. It was a complete waste of time coming here.

She turned around, heading to her car when she heard the door open behind her. She turned with a start and oxygen seemed to abandon her when she found Cindy holding the door

The world went still around her.

Cindy's brows scrunched up in surprise. "Sylvie?"

Sylvie inhaled deeply, her hand tightening around her bag.

There was no going back anyway. She wouldn't let herself flee from Cindy like a coward. No, no amount of low self-esteem would make her do that.

So, she forced her legs to move, going back to the door.

Cindy stood in the doorway, corporately dressed like she was on her way out. She looked like she had a million questions to throw at Sylvie. 'What're you doing here?' 'Have you been here for long?' 'Were you trying to leave without knocking?" But she said nothing, and it was as if each woman was waiting for the other to speak first.

"So," Sylvie slumped her shoulders. "You and Kage, huh?"

Disappointment crossed Cindy's face. Maybe she thought Sylvie would want to say a 'hello' to her as it was their first conversation in four years.

She lowered her gaze, her hand tightening sprint the side of the door where she held.

"When did you two become a thing? Few months after I left? A year? Or was it before?"

on you, especially not with me," Cindy rolled

floor. "How did it even happen? I mean,

do you mean 'how is it you? What? Do you think I am unworthy to be loved by

what she interpreted from her words. "You were my bestfriend!" She rose her voice. "Did you even look for me to know what happened? How did you just swing into a

of him, and it was I who stood by him. So, yes!

Sylvie was astonished.

a deep breath. "I'm sorry for what happened, okay? You were a good friend,

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it. Besides, it wasn't like you two were still

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my dress? You've been trying so hard to be me. Even your hair,"she flicked her gaze to Cindy's

told me I was lucky. You've always

look in

I've been since you want to be me so bad," Sylvie

talking. It was the first time she was standing up to someone in four years, and she'd be lying if she said it didn't feel

away in her car, she couldn't hold back the tears that came pouring. It still hurt, knowing that the one person she had considered her bestfriend had always envied her. It felt like a betrayal, and maybe it

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in Oasis has been opened," Galen said to

get Kage to change his mind, you

but it did nothing to take

her head, she

to stay out of trouble as much as you can, Sylvie," Galen's warning reached her from behind. "I didn't build Astréa

eat downstairs. Though, she was very dizzy, she felt.. sketching a little before

when she pulled her cabinet, she was

that had her best designs - one she had never shown to anyone at

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Galen called for