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.

can heal, but I'm broken right now,

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

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 be the

Sebastian doesn't seem

I'm the one being

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myself so drained that I barely want to go on. I got

the door, only to freeze when he sees me by the window, "You-?

I open my mouth but utter no word. One more word and my

several men file into the room, each with a huge bouquet in their arms, big

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 me back to reality. I

what I think

his back, his back stiff straight and his look a bit nervous, like the cute, clumsy, spellbound Mr. Darcy out of

answer.

is here for? To

a million thoughts screaming in my mind, making me

if I'm

And besides, I'm