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?

that the girl they met a week ago won’t stay around in the hope of any romantic whatsoever. He did the

know how

but I’m

sorrow. I gave all that to Sebastian, and

to be on the

side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile, hurtful normality that is

that’s wrong, cause Sebastian

I’m the one being

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joy of life that one would feel after a near–death experience, but I suddenly find myself so drained that I barely want to go on. I

even continue the

shushes someone as he opens the door, only to freeze when he sees me by

but utter no word. One more word and my tears would pour

Adrian raises a finger before he dashes out of the room, and the next second several men file into the room, each with a huge

room is filled with color in an instant. The theme of the bouquets is rose, decorated with lilies, my favorite. The annoying smell of disinfectant is replaced by a soothing fragrant, tickling a deep corner of my memory, as if I was once in a room pretty

whisper at the outside of the door snaps me back to

what I think it

tie before? He sorts his suits out with one hand behind his back, his back stiff straight and his look a bit nervous, like the cute, clumsy, spellbound Mr. Darcy out of the early

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