Then- Opal
The look on his face would haunt me forever but it was nothing absolutely nothing compared to watching him turn and walk away.
I wanted to scream, to cry out to him that I didn’t want any of this. That I wanted him and only him.
I wanted to sob that I was doing this for him but that I needed him to save me. To be my hero one last time.
But I didn’t do any of that. All I could do was watch as he swept out of the great hall. He didn’t look back.
Williams hand around mine tightened. His lips a thin angry line on his classically handsome face. And he was handsome. He just held no interest to me.
The only man I would ever want had just left me without a backwards glance. And it hurt. It hurt so badly even when I knew it was for the best.
“Will you stop looking after him
