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?”

she is preparing herself for her

five years ago,

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

day! I close my eyes, feeling so stupid when that memory pops up in my mind. I knew he didn’t love me, I knew he only

left such a deep brand of humiliation

hiding the tears welling up in my eyes. I have promised myself to not cry for him

just need to

exchange

starts, “It’s doesn’t matter now, not really.

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

lost shape when the word “lost” left me, and I burst

my first poke. It’s like I was back to the worst day of

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 Sebastian left me on our way back home to the airport,

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

025 The Iron Lady

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