Chapter Eighty-One

SCARLETT

Victory.

I can already taste it and oh how sweet it is. Aurora is watching me, has been for awhile now and I've been waving, flashing her my victory smile. There's something about winning and the taste of your opponents tears, or their blood. In this case, I will settle for tears, and maybe a little depression to go with it. I don't care if this makes me a bad person but I'm going to love taking that smile off her face, I will relish in it for all the nights I've spent without my husband, the days my husband has spent touching her and not me. She's going to feel the anguish I felt when I went to bed alone knowing Caelum was with her.

Xenastra approaches me, waving a huge cotton candy my way. “Do you think your husband paid for this? It sure is a lot.”

“No," I sigh, taking the candy from her. I overhead Caelum offer to cover the cost but Emelia wouldn't let him chip in because it was all paid for by her and Aurora's friends.

I'm on diet, but the way the cotton candy tastes is