Chapter 87

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.

Maybe one day I can heal, but I’m broken right now, I know.

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

be on the other side of favoritism for a

danger; I wanted a man who would take my side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile,

I guess that’s wrong, cause Sebastian

the one

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of life that one would feel after a near–death experience, but I suddenly find myself so drained that I barely want

even

you to–” Adrian shushes someone as he opens the door, only to freeze when he sees

but utter no word.

the room, and the next second several men

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

snaps me back to reality. I blink, and my heart races like a broken

this what I think

tie — his tie?? Was 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, spellbound Mr. Darcy out of the early 18th–century–setting movie, anxious

answer.

that what he is here for? To pop

a step back, a million thoughts screaming in

as if I’m standing on a

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