She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

087 His Confession

Scarlett's POV

I don't know how long I slept, but I felt much better when the bright twilight

woke me up.

The ward is empty. No doctor, no nurse....

No Adrian.

I guess the baby did his job alright.

Warning myself that it's stupid to weep over something I never had, I slip down the hard, tiny bed and walk toward the window. The breeze at the end of the fall is no longer warm. It's chill.

I wanted the baby thing to get me out of the awkward talk, so why am I feeling so low?

Anyone in the right mind getting to know that the girl they met a week ago won't stay around in the hope of any romantic whatsoever. He did the right thing. Actually, I wanted him to make this choice.

I don't know how to love again.

one day I can heal, but

Sebastian, and it's not fair to Adrian if I were to

a man who would take my side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile, hurtful normality that is my life. I wanted to

Sebastian doesn't seem

I'm the

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that one would feel after a near-death experience, but I suddenly find myself so drained that I barely want to go on. I got out of danger, only to have it confirmed once again that I had

Adrian shushes someone as he opens the door, only to freeze when he sees me by the window,

no word.

finger before he dashes out of the room, and the next second several men file into the room, each with a huge bouquet in their arms, big enough

lilies, my favorite. The annoying smell of disinfectant is replaced by a soothing fragrant, tickling a deep corner of my memory, as if I was once in a room pretty and scented just like "Great, thanks!" Adrian's whisper at the outside of the door

what I

he wearing a tie before? He sorts his suits out with one hand behind his back, his back stiff straight and his look a bit nervous, like the cute, clumsy,

answer.

here for? To pop THE

thoughts screaming in my

I'm standing on

answer. And besides, I'm really not in the