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.

at this sorrow. I gave all that to Sebastian, and it’s not fair to Adrian if I were to try things

the other side

side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile, hurtful normality that is my life. I wanted to be the

guess that’s wrong, cause Sebastian doesn’t seem to have

the one

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

even

shushes someone as he opens the door, only to

utter no word. One more word and

raises a finger before he dashes out of the room, and the next second several men file into the room, each with a huge bouquet in their arms, big

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

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

what I think

clears 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 back stiff straight and his look a bit nervous, like the cute, clumsy,

answer.

that what he is here

take a step back, a million thoughts screaming in my mind, making

if I’m standing on a

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