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

to be on the other side of

wanted a man who could throw himself after me 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

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

I’m the one

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near–death experience, but I suddenly find myself so drained that I barely

I even continue the

he opens the door, only to freeze

but utter no word. One

before he dashes out of the room, and the next second several men file into the room,

annoying smell of disinfectant is replaced by a soothing fragrant, tickling a deep corner of my memory, as

snaps me back to reality. I blink, and my heart

this what I

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

answer.

what he is here

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

as if I’m standing on

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