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.

heal, but I'm

brave girl who could put 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

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 be the "only" in a man's heart, just like how I loved

Sebastian doesn't seem to have enjoyed

the one

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life 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

I told you to-" Adrian shushes someone as he opens the door, only to

my mouth but utter no word. One more word and my tears would pour

of the room, and the next second several men

the bouquets is rose, decorated with 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 snaps

what I think it

wearing a tie before? He sorts his suits out with one hand behind his back, his

answer.

here for? To pop THE

thoughts

I'm standing on

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