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?

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

how to love

day I can heal, but I’m broken right now,

cry at this sorrow. I gave all that to Sebastian, and it’s not fair to Adrian if I were to try things with him when I

just…really wanted to be on the other side of

after me when I was in danger; I wanted a man who would take my side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile,

I guess that’s wrong, cause Sebastian doesn’t seem to

I’m the one being

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one would feel after a near–death experience, but I suddenly find myself so drained that I barely want to go on. I got out of danger, only to have it confirmed once again that I had

even continue

someone as he opens the door, only to freeze

word.

of the room, and the next second several men file

of disinfectant is replaced by a soothing fragrant, tickling a deep corner of

outside of the door snaps me back to reality. I blink, and my heart races like a

what I think it

his throat, and adjusts his tie — his tie?? Was he wearing a 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 18th–century–setting movie, anxious

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