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 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

wanted to be on the other side

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 that is my life. I wanted to be the “only” in a man’s heart, just like how I loved

cause Sebastian

the one being

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it’s a pure joy of 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 even continue

as he opens the door, only to freeze when he sees me by the window, “You–? You are up

no word. One more word and my tears would pour

a minute!” Adrian raises a finger before he dashes out of the room, and the next second several

with color in an instant. The theme of 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

the outside of the door snaps me back to reality. I blink, and my heart

this what I think

his back, his

answer.

that what he is here for? To pop THE

take a step back, a million thoughts screaming

I’m standing on a

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