Chapter Seventeen

~Agathe~

Hence, even before we met, he already belonged to someone else.

Some woman had already owned his heart, probably the mother of the little girl.

All of a sudden, I could feel my heart exploding in agony. It was painful, I could barely breathe.

I should have known better before letting my guard down around him. Grr.

I am fully aware I should not be feeling that way. I have no right to complain, no doubt about that.

'Cause who am I, anyway? We just met yesterday morning to be exact.

Not a fancy meet-cute or anything.

Besides, I am nobody who owes him more than a million dollars for my mother's surgery.

Though, truth be told, there was a part of me that had that wishful thinking.

What if fairy tales are real and we are actually meant for each other?

It was I who also dismissed that idea.

Silly, silly me.

I turned to look at them again and noticed one thing.

For the first time, the bellend seemed so gentle and soft by the way he embraced his daughter.

Gone was the terrif