Chapter Twenty Eight

Helene

"I don't have the time or a reason to pretend to care, little girl. I no longer have anything to prove to anybody."

I haven't been able to stop myself from thinking about what he said in the last five minutes, and I hated myself very much for feeling this way and for being in this situation where I couldn't get him out of my mind.

Of course, I was happy about the fact that I was finally out of that prison and that I could finally see the sunlight again, but I didn't like that I ended up being carried out of the place, especially because he was the one who carried me out.

The last thing I expected him to do was to pick me up in his arms because I thought that he would be more cautious of his actions around me to avoid any rumors from spreading and causing problems between him and his girlfriend, but surprisingly, he mentioned that he no longer had anything to prove to anybody, and that made me feel some type of way in a good way.

I certainly wasn't expecting anything from him, a