Chapter 37

[Author's POV]

The mood was tense and the atmosphere, awfully quiet and suspenseful.

She wondered why he had called her here in the dead of the night when everyone was asleep and when even the slightest noise such as the drop of a pin could be heard since everywhere was pregnant with silence.

She calculated the time with her brain. Forty minutes... Forty minutes had passed by since she had come to see him without hearing so much as a word from him.

If he had called to waste her time when she should have been having her beauty sleep, he should have just told her already instead of making her stand by like a lost soul as he turned his back on her.

She wanted to shout at him, but then, it was pointless and it was just an act that was going to wake everybody up and then, her deceit, her lies; these and more were all bound to come out to the open, a public disgrace for herself and a certified ruined legacy for her ancestors and generations to come.

Ins