Chapter 53
But then, with just one sentence, the engagement was called off. Sebastian had dismissed everything.
Roxanne clutched her chest and pushed the album aside. The forced smile on her delicate face could no longer hold. “Sebastian, I don’t want to be engaged to you
Sebastian paused, his expression calm. He didn’t lash out. He set the album down, his dark eyes settling quietly on her, “Why?”
She sighed and met his gaze directly. Gently slipping out of his arms, she sat across from him, her voice steady and composed. “I don’t want to marry you.”
“You don’t want to marry me?” Sebastian let out a cold laugh. His elegant face tumed grim, and his words turned sharp. “You’ve clung to me for years. You drugged me. You took a knife for me. And now, you’re telling me you don’t want to marry me?”
Afire lit in Roxanne’s chest. She took a deep breath, trying to keep her emotions in check. “Yes, I have been clinging to you all these years. I have the right to love someone too, no? I took that knife for you because I liked you at the time.
“But believe me. If you were stabbed all over like a pincushion right now, I wouldn’t lift a finger. As for drugging you–hey, I’m not shameless enough to do something like that.”
Her voice rose a notch. “This is the last time I’m going to say it–I never drugged you!”
Tension snapped between them in an instant. Sebastian was full of hostility while Roxanne bristled with thoms.
Sebastian fel a throbbing pain in his temples. He reached up with his long tingers and rubbed his forehead, trying to calm himself down.
When Roxanne said she didn’t want to marry him anymore, a surge of tury had welled up in his chest that he just couldn’t suppress. The words that came out of him nest had been harsh and thoughtless.
He sottened his tone and reached out toward her. “I’m sorry, I said the wrong thing.”
“You didn’t say the wrong thing.“Roxanne replied flatly, keeping her face expressionless. “I told you back then that I didn’t drug you, You said you believed me, but you never really did in your eyes, I’ve always been some scheming woman who would stop at nothing just to have you,”
Sebastianfurrowed his brows. His voice was helpless, distant, “I don’t care about that.”
He truly didn’t understand what point she was so hung up on. Did it really matter whether she drugged him or not? As the supposed victim, he had never pursued it or held it against her. Even if Roxanne had been the one to drug him, he would not blame her for it. So, what was she so bothered about?
Roxanne shot to her feet, agitation etched all over her beautiful face. “But I care! I was innocent. Why should I bear the stain of something I didn’t do? I thought you trusted me, so I never tried to find out the truth. If you had told me sooner that you didn’t believe me, I could’ve cleared my name! I wouldn’t be stuck like this, unable to explain anything!
It had been years since that incident. Unless the prison responsible confessed, how could she possibly find evidence now? Even if there had been evidence, it would have long been destroyed. And now, she was the one suffering for it.
Even now—after all this time–Sebastian still didn’t believe in her innocence
At that noment, Roxanne finally understood. All these years, she had loved the wrong man
Sebastian looked at her, his head pounding “Fine, line, time–it wasn’t you, I believe you. Happy now?”
That was the last strap for Roxanne. His patronizing attitude pushed her over the edge. Eyes red, she shouted at him, “You believe me? That’s bullshit! You said the same thing back then too, but did you belleve me then?”
Sebastian had been trying to speak to be gently, but she was still lashing out like this.
itis temper chapped. “Fine! you say it wasn’i you who drugged me, so where’s your proof? Where is it?
