Chapter 3

After dinner, I was called to Mr. Hayes’s study.

Mr. Hayes, abandoning his usual stern business demeanor, asked me patiently and kindly, “Scarlett, you’ve loved Julian since you were a child. Do you still love him?”

I immediately shook my head, so vigorously that the muscles in my face began to ache.

Seven years of loving Julian, seven years of humiliation, seven years of pain. But I never learned my lesson, did I? That’s why this time, this time I went through a hellish cycle of revenge and torment.

I couldn’t dare to love Julian anymore.

Mr. Hayes pondered my…