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Chapter 124

Penulis: Erika Lana Bell
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-24 21:50:24

Scarlett’s POV.

I hadn’t slept much what was left of the night.

Every time I closed my eyes, the image of Leon’s face—the hurt, his insistence, and determination—it all kept flashing through my mind. He had sworn repeatedly to me that he hadn’t betrayed me once.

He had sworn the papers were forged, that he had never planned to take the children from me.

He had even said he cared.

I rolled that thought over in my mind more than a few times.

I care about you, Scarlett.

I wanted to believe him. More than anything, I wanted to let myself fall into that belief, because the way he had looked at me… it hadn’t felt like a lie.

But no matter how hard I tried, the walls I had built around myself refused to crumble. Doubt pressed in at every angle.

My heart was still raw from everything Caden had put me through. My father, my stepmother, Dahlia… and everyone else…

So many people had betrayed me.

I had learned the hard way what happened when I let myself trust blindly.

I sat in the garden with a
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