under even the smallest lights– but black. I kept my makeup simple because I knew that if t

mouth fell open and I f

ful?" I asked, f

even hard for me to smile while looking at my killer but now that I had decided to take t

th a smile. "You are always beautiful b

o change?" I prete

in my engagement dress in my previous life and now, I decided that if I was to di

the jewels decorating the top sparkled against the dark lace of the cloth. When I put

told me you were preparing a white dress like a bride. That's why I am surprised." A

, he came off as a strict man. I used to pride myself in being the only woman who got to see his hard face transform so softly every time

d even further s

be content as long as I dragged Cassius and April down with me. For ever

sius asked, takin

resisted his touch a

ha

e said, playing with my fingers. "Are yo

unsure where to start. I knew that to make Cassius' end even worse than mine had been, I had to take hi

the scenes. His name was hot on everyone's lips, to the point where even the Alpha King himself wrote a letter to c

cks. He would use my father's name to build his connections and my father's men to fight his battl

hen, would his f

im? Everything he had, I handed to him on a platter

we walked towards the hall where the engagemen

he cut

shook my head to insist bu

at the anger that surged inside

I said, you are promised to me and I know you love me. It's impossible for you to have met someone else and sud

listen to what

s just do away with this u

hone. I had refused to admit it but since you lied that you love someone other than me, my head and heart have been in turmoil. For me, yo

of my pores. I looked at him and I wished I could stick a blade through his heart lik

my heart ache with a dull pain as if to remind me of the blade he stabbed

spered my name with

ng my feelings for this man may prove more difficult than I first thoug

to forget the nonsense I said that morning, it is nice to hear you say all this, Cass." I started my own lies. "You never express your feelings, C

ns more than the words I do not say."

rock for so many years and I know you only see me as a friend.

e me. Everything I have is yours and it is my

e for taking back ever

agement a second time. Today was the day all my humiliations beg

and white with splashes of purple. This was the same hall where my father died. My father gave me everything but never go

ven if I fell to the depths of hell, I had t

our world, I looked around the hall with dull eyes. I made my father invite all these people knowing they would n

belong to in the first place but this time around, things would be differ

meet you." I approached the o

ied grace. "I was surprised to receive a last-minute invitation to your engagement but

n I had invite

d very little pull in society. This woman's secret would be out soon and the world would see her in all he

d you would not make it due to how late I sent the invita

" she waved her hand

I raised my head, my eyes fell on the clock as it st

ri

er to see