Chapter Forty-Two.

Sorah's POV.

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"You're the most gullible and blindly-trusting fool I've ever come across."

And my heart shatters to dust.

After hearing what she had said to Stella, I thought I could stomach it all and confront her to find out the truth about our friendship. After all, she's been the only other person in my life for years aside from Mei.

Mortiz represents so much in my life; my strength, my fight, my hope, and lots more. I could never do without her in my life.

And that is what has cost me the most now. How can I trust someone other than Mei so foolishly? Where has Mortiz been in my strife during my stay at the Claudes? Where has she been in my peril after I fled for my life?

To easily discard all we shared just like this...I regret it all for it hurts ten times worse than I thought I could handle.

"Does it hurt that much?" She sneers. "I've never for once thought of you as anything close to a friend; you're not worth it at all. I just pitied you, lonely dying thing- Ah!"

Her sneerin