Seeing the hurt in her eyes, His chest tightened with guilt. But he still turned away, taking Cecelia with him.
Before leaving, he turned to the maid and guards and ordered, “She’s not to have any food or water until she apologizes!”
Madelynn watched him walk away with tears slipping silently down her cheeks. This was the man she had loved for years. But there was no way she could keep loving him after all this.
For days, she was locked inside the villa like a prisoner.
Three times a day, the guards would ask if she had realized her mistake. Madelynn never gave an answer. She spent the time staring out the window and counting down the days. In five more days, she would be gone from this life for good.
Sitting on her balcony swing, her phone kept buzzing with texts. All of them from her sister.
She ignored them until she couldn’t anymore and decided to read the latest one.
[You couldn’t even get your parents to keep loving you, and now you can’t even handle a man. If your parents could pick me over you, then best believe that Oliver will dance to my tunes too. Just one word from me, and he’ll never return home to you.]
She proved her words.