Chapter 64

Chapter 64

Her vision kept swimming away and snapping back, until her stomach churned with nausea.

‘I can't even make excuses anymore.'

If a fiancée who had vanished before her betrothal ceremony were found in the forest...

To anyone, it could only mean one thing: that she had found Cedric so unbearable she'd run away and gotten lost.

She was terrified of that terrible misunderstanding. Though she had steeled herself in her own way, she was so afraid she felt like throwing up.

She wasn't ready to see Cedric hurt.

Just a little longer.

Just a little longer.

Just a little more, she kept telling herself, hesitating.

"Cedric…"

It was a name not permitted to her in this life. She whispered the name of her former husband, whom she had stubbornly called "Duke Angel."

Just then, footsteps sounded in the quiet room, faint but unmistakable.

Startled, Ines lifted her head.…