Chapter Eighty-Eight

SCARLETT

Gratification.

There's no other word I can use to describe the peaceful state of mind I'm in. My rival is finally suffering the effects of crossing me, she is getting a taste of all the pain that she put me through. My sister's in-law feel sorry for her, everyone that attended that party is pitying her, Xena included. Now it's "oh poor Aurora she lost her daughter, she's so sad, she's a good woman."

She's not, she's a vile woman, and where was all this sympathetic energy when I was going through hell because of her? Suffering because my husband was in her bed and not mine. Before her, I couldn't give a shit where he spent the night because I knew that whomever it was he had been with was just that, a night out and nothing more, never to be spoken of or seen again. But she's too cunning, she lures him in by acting nonchalant but I see it all, I see how she craves his attention, how she has little pathetic outbursts when my husband gives me attention or shows some affection. Sh