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.

I can heal, but I'm broken right now, I

love as the center of her world, who could laugh at his happiness and cry at this sorrow. I gave all that to Sebastian, and it's not fair to Adrian if I were to try things with him when I know I can't give him the same thing. I just...really wanted to be on

could throw himself after me when I was in danger; I wanted a man who would take my side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile, hurtful normality

I guess that's wrong, cause Sebastian doesn't

I'm the one

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barely want

someone as he opens the door, only to freeze when he sees

word. One more word and my tears would

of the room, and the next second several men file into the room, each with a huge bouquet

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

I think it

his throat, and adjusts his tie - his tie?? Was he wearing a tie before? He sorts his suits out with one hand behind his back, his

answer.

that what he is here for? To

thoughts

as if I'm

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