She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

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?

the girl they met a week ago won’t stay around in the hope of any romantic whatsoever. He did the right thing. Actually, I wanted him to make this

how

one day I can heal, but I’m

who could put love as the center of her world, who could laugh at his happiness and cry at this sorrow. I gave all that to Sebastian, and it’s not fair to Adrian if I were to try things

wanted to be on the other side

would take my side with no condition, and protect me from all the greedy, vile, hurtful normality that is my life. I wanted to be

cause Sebastian doesn’t seem to have

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

I even continue

to–” Adrian shushes someone as he opens the door, only to freeze when he sees me by the window,

I open my mouth but utter no word. One more word and my

dashes out of the room, and the next second several men file into the room, each with a huge bouquet in their arms, big enough to hide them

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,

at the outside of the door snaps me back to reality.

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