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?”

a deep breath, Lilith looks like she is preparing herself for

21st, five years ago,

could I not? That was the day Sebastian came to me and said “he agrees to my deal for his hand. I thought it was

I knew he didn’t love me, I knew he only agreed to that because of Ava, but mannnnn, I was elated. I thought for once I had a chance at what I

of humiliation on

take a gulp of my lemonade, hiding the tears welling up in my eyes. I have promised myself to

need to

exchange a worried

starts, “It’s doesn’t matter now,

cut her off, “I don’t care about him or his

voice lost shape when the word “lost” left

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

My wedding day.

up- they took Ava for a trip to Egypt to cheer her up; the day my best friend walked out on me with disappointment in her eyes; the day when the few quests that came all looked at me with judgy eyes; the day, when Sebastian left me on our way back home to the

in so long. Aurora joins us and that just makes me cry even more, feeling like a baby that’s

025 The Iron Lady

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