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?”

like she is preparing herself for her

five years

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

pops up in my mind. I knew he didn’t love me, I knew he only agreed to that because of

a deep brand of humiliation on all my

I take a gulp of my lemonade, hiding the tears welling up in my eyes. I have promised myself to not cry for him again. I have to carve him out of my life. I

need

and Aurora exchange a

you don’t need to know,” Lilith starts, “It’s doesn’t matter now, not really.

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

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

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

My wedding day.

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

cry out loud, the first time in so long. Aurora joins us and that just makes me cry even more, feeling like a

025 The Iron Lady

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