Todos os capítulos de The Scandal In Room 214: Capítulo 111 - Capítulo 120

Candace’s POVI heard the door open before I looked up.My head still felt heavy from the medication, and I had been staring at the ceiling for so long that the room had started to blur into the same pale walls and dim lights. I turned toward the door, expecting a nurse.Elias stood there with a bag in one hand, his eyes fixed on me. The moment he saw the IV in my hand and the monitor beside my bed, something in his face changed.I pushed myself higher against the pillows, but the movement sent a dull ache through my stomach. I stopped halfway, waiting for it to pass.Elias was beside me almost immediately.“Candace.”I reached for him before I could think better of it. He set the bag down, took my hand carefully around the IV, then leaned down and pulled me into his arms. I pressed my face against his chest, gripping the back of his shirt as the tears came.“I thought you weren’t coming. I kept telling myself you would, but after everything that happened, I started thinking maybe you

Candace’s POVEverything Elias had told me was still running through my head. His marriage. His divorce. Jake’s years of treatment. What happened to his mother. The guilt Elias had carried for years without ever letting me see how much it had affected him.It was a lot to take in, but somehow, it didn’t change the way I saw him. If anything, I understood him better now.“I’m still angry with you,” I said.“I know.”“I don’t want you to think that because I’m not leaving, everything is suddenly fine. It isn’t.”“I know that too.”I looked down at the blanket covering my legs. “You disappeared, Elias. You stopped answering me and decided that staying away from me was better without ever asking what I wanted. You made that decision for both of us.”“I was wrong.”The answer came without hesitation.“You were.”He reached for my hand but stopped before touching me.I noticed and looked at him. “You’re waiting for permission now?”A faint smile touched his mouth. “I don’t want to assume an

Candace’s POVThe first thing I noticed when I walked back onto campus was that people were looking at me. Not the usual kind of glance you barely notice before someone looks away.These were longer and deliberate. A group of girls near the entrance stopped talking when I passed, and one of them immediately leaned toward the other and whispered something into her ear.I kept walking.Maybe they had heard about the hospital. Maybe I just wasn’t used to being around this many people after spending days in a hospital room. I tightened my grip around my bag and headed toward the building.Everything looked normal. Students rushed between classes, people stood around the courtyard with coffee cups and backpacks, and someone was arguing loudly on the phone near the stairs. It should have made me feel normal too. Instead, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong.Elias was already inside when I arrived. Our eyes met briefly across the hallway before he looked away. We had both a

Candace’s POVI stood in Elias’s office doorway, staring at the empty desk.For a few seconds, I couldn’t make sense of what I was seeing. His laptop was gone. His books were gone. Even the papers that usually covered half the desk had disappeared, leaving the surface completely bare.I stepped inside and looked around, hoping I had somehow walked into the wrong office.I hadn’t.My chest tightened as I pulled out my phone and called him. He answered on the second ring.“Candace.”“You resigned?”There was a pause long enough to give me the answer before he finally spoke.“I was going to tell you.”“When?”Silence.I ended the call.I walked out of the office before the anger boiling inside me could turn into something worse. I found him in the parking lot a few minutes later, standing beside his car with his phone in his hand. The moment he saw me, his expression changed.“You weren’t supposed to find out like this.”“I wasn’t supposed to find out at all.”He lowered his phone and to

Candace’s POVThere were five days left until my wedding, and Jake was acting like the entire world would collapse if one flower was placed three inches too far to the left.“Move that arrangement.”The wedding planner looked at him. “Which one?”“The centre arrangement. It’s supposed to be lower than the others.”I stood beside him, smiling politely while two people immediately moved the flowers. Jake checked his phone, looked over the seating chart, then turned toward me.“Do you like this?”I forced myself to study the arrangement. “It looks beautiful.”His shoulders relaxed. “Good. I want everything to be perfect for you.”I smiled. “That’s sweet.”Inside, I was counting.Five days.Four nights.One wedding.Jake had become obsessed with every detail since the photographs had been leaked and the university situation had forced Elias out. He checked the venue repeatedly, called vendors over tiny mistakes, reviewed the guest list at least twice a day, and expected me to be involved