Chapter 275: All A Lie?
Being a child was funny. Emily remembered being able to spin round and round in circles.
Then by the time that she stopped. She would be so dizzy she would not even be able to stand. Simply collapsing and staring up at the sky, watching it spin, the colours swirling in a giant vortex. Her body seeming to be the only unmoving thing. Weighed down, and only able to watch the world speeding by at breakneck speed. As a child, Emily had greatly enjoyed that feeling, often taking multiple turns on the merry-go-round just to feel it again.
But as an adult, and thanks to Derek Haven, Emily was feeling that feeling again. No spinning in circles needed. She did not like it at all. It did not even have the feel of the simple game that she had played as a child. Instead, it felt as though somebody had taken Emily fresh off a roller coaster and had thrown her down a cliff.
When she had first come home and collapsed on the rug, Emily had been of the mind that she would just lay there for a bit. Gather herself, and then get up once she had come to terms with everything that had gone on the night before.
But what was there for her to come to terms with?
The fact that Cassandra Haven hated her guts, and thought her to be some cheap gold digger. The woman had literally been throwing money at Emily the same way that some mean children throw coins at squirrels and birds. ’Take this and disappear,’
She had been saying with each amount that she had written down. And like a fool, Emily had stood there and resisted. Thinking that she was fighting for something...something genuine...for herself and Derek.
But then Cassandra Haven, tired of playing nice. Had ripped the strawberry tinted contact lenses that Emily had been wearing when it came to what she and Derek had. ’Even if you love him, are you truly telling me that you are alright with everything. That you will still continue to be with him after his marriage?"
Derek’s mother had asked and Emily’s world had fallen apart.