14.

“What?” Simon said, his voice barely loud that I was only able to hear him because I’d trained my ears to pick up sounds that were far away.

His eyes grew wide with shock and her statement left him so dumbfounded that he couldn’t wrap his head around what she’d just said.

How is he going to walk around with that arrogant look of his after being warned to steer clear of the Cavendish’s family properties?

I couldn’t possibly know how he felt because I’ve never had enough to be cut out of something but I could tell from his look that it hurts.

What Georgina had said seemed to have hit him like a ton of bricks, leaving him speechless and making him unable to stand properly as he staggered.

“Georgina, Sister, You—”

“Don’t touch me!” Georgina gritted when Simon reached his hand out to touch her and he jumped at the suddenness and sternness of her voice.

The air was cold and choking and it didn’t help that the floor was as silent as a graveyard. The people that were happily laughing when Sim