025 The Iron Lady

Scarlett’s POV

“I was mad at you for loving him when he was a total jerk to you, but that’s not the main reason why! couldn’t talk to you in all these years.” Lilith starts with a nervous look.

I did not see that coming. I really thought that was the reason.

“….I know a secret, sort of, of Sebastian’s, I didn’t want to tell you because it would only hurt you, but i don’t know how to face you when I know I’m keeping such a secret from you, so…”

Her blurt is baffling but I sort out a lead, somewhat-

“Okay, so what’s this big secret?”

deep breath, Lilith looks like she is preparing herself for her death sentence before she say

21st, five years ago,

me and said “he agrees to my deal for his hand. I thought it was his version of “I

in my mind. I knew he didn’t love me, I knew he only agreed to

brand of humiliation on all my memory

eyes. I have promised myself to not cry for him again. I have to carve him out of my

need to

exchange a

Lilith starts, “It’s doesn’t matter now,

off, “I don’t care about him or his secret. I just want to know why I

failed. My voice lost shape when the word “lost” left

to even touch that day, and it all comes out at my first poke. It’s like I was back to the worst day of my life, the one I lied to myself saying that I was

My wedding day.

me with disappointment in her eyes; the day when the few quests that came all looked at me with judgy eyes; the day, when

tight as I cry out loud, the first time in so long. Aurora joins us and that just makes

025 The Iron Lady

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