Chapter 43

Sophie

I slid down on my bed as I fiddled with the food which I had rushed to get earlier.

For some reason, the appetite wasn’t there anymore, and my craving for apple juice disappeared into thin air. All I wanted to do was seek an explanation from Ronan and tell him exactly what happened to me that day, and I wanted to explain it all to him from the beginning.

I procrastinated for a while, and after a few minutes of pondering, I swore. Once I was done with my meal, I settled to eat my food, taking a spoonful after each minute, not wanting to be done with the food real quick.

After minutes of procrastinating, I finally finished all the content of the plates, and then I gulped down a little bit of apple juice.

I put the plates aside in the corner of the room, wanting to hide them away, scared that anyone might walk in and see that I had eaten.

The words seeped into my head as I recalled Lacy’s rumors about me having no shame if I had stepped out of