Chapter 5

After returning from Paris, my life turned upside down.

Before, whenever I walked into a restaurant, people would recognize me as Scarlett Monroe and fawn over me.

Now, the only thing in their eyes was suspicion, along with emotions I couldn't quite decipher.

People sneaked photos of me.

People deliberately shadowed me.

Someone even shoved a phone in my face, shouting, "When are you going to apologize to Adrian?"

"You should divorce Adrian and stop dragging him down!"

I didn't respond to any of it.

Because I knew that right now, any word of explanation would just be clipped into…