Chapter 332: The day your heart beats for me
The more she listened to him, the guilt slowly turned to rage. Some might call it stupid rage but everything felt messed up. She gave her all against all odds, but in the end, she only won because he changed the heart of the dark villain she designed.
"I was just a joke and source of amusement. I guess I was so pathetic it didn’t matter if I was around." She snapped and then burst into a laugh. "And now you keep your source of amusement on a leash."
That was it, he stood up. He just couldn’t take it anymore. "I love you. Yes, I said it. It is fine, Abrielle since you want me to spell it out so badly. Yes, at first it was amusement, but it changed. I don’t know why or how or when. It just happened. I am foolishly in love with the woman who wants me dead."
Everything went still; she heard those three words she would never have imagined leaving his mouth. "You love me." She muttered, her gaze averted; he was truly crazy.
"Are you crazy? Why would you want to fall in love with me? I was the last person you should love. If there was anyone worth your love it should be Callista. She is pure and talented, fights by your side and definitely doesn’t want you dead." Abrielle thought she had lost her mind and she could not understand why any sane person would love a woman like her.
"I must have gone mad to be a man who loves his wife that wants nothing to do with him. Yes, I am that man. I tried to search for answers and made up excuses, but the answer was the same: I loved you too much for my own good. It became an obsession that was eating me slowly. I didn’t understand what it was at first. The voices told me I was insane, and it was right; I was indeed insane, Abrielle. What are you going to do with this foolish man that loves you?"
A love confession was something she never expected. She stared at him, and could not stop the tears. He loved her hopelessly. He was sincere, his eyes were begging like an injured pet that just wanted its owner’s care.
He was begging for her love. She asked herself why she didn’t see the signs. She was so involved in the plot that she didn’t think much of his obsession. She thought it was just his toxic trait of being possessive.
She thought it was just lust but it was more than that. The signals were mixed, when she tried to give in Calista was there. He was kind to Callista. He was meant to be obsessed with Callista, the pure female lead, and not his crazy wife.
"I thought you loved her, Cedric. I thought you loved Callista. You didn’t care when I lost the baby, you didn’t stay by my side while I was breaking. You were never there when I was breaking and you say you love me." She started thinking back to everything, did she see wrong?
"You went to the lantern festival with her. Who goes to the festival of love with another woman when they have a wife?" She asked him.