Mending a Broken Love (Roxanne and Sebastian) novel Chapter 53

But then, with just one sentence, the engagement was called off. Sebastian had dismissed everything.

Roxanne clutched her chest and pushed the album aside. The forced smile on her delicate face could no longer hold. "Sebastian, I don't want to be engaged to you anymore."

Sebastian paused, his expression calm. He didn't lash out. He set the album down, his dark eyes settling quietly on her. "Why?"

She sighed and met his gaze directly. Gently slipping out of his arms, she sat across from him, her voice steady and composed. "I don't want to marry you."

"You don't want to marry me?" Sebastian let out a cold laugh. His elegant face turned grim, and his words turned sharp. "You've clung to me for years. You drugged me. You took a knife for me. And now, you're telling me you don't want to marry me?"

A fire lit in Roxanne's chest. She took a deep breath, trying to keep her emotions in check. "Yes, I have been clinging to you all these years. I have the right to love someone too, no? I took that knife for you because I liked you at the time.

"But believe me. If you were stabbed all over like a pincushion right now, I wouldn't lift a finger. As for drugging you—hey, I'm not shameless enough to do something like that."

Her voice rose a notch. "This is the last time I'm going to say it—I never drugged you!"

Tension snapped between them in an instant. Sebastian was full of hostility while Roxanne bristled with thorns.

Sebastian felt a throbbing pain in his temples. He reached up with his long fingers and rubbed his forehead, trying to calm himself down.

When Roxanne said she didn't want to marry him anymore, a surge of fury had welled up in his chest that he just couldn't suppress. The words that came out of him next had been harsh and thoughtless.

At that moment, Roxanne finally understood. All these years, she had loved the wrong man.

Sebastian looked at her, his head pounding. "Fine, fine, fine—it wasn't you. I believe you. Happy now?"

That was the last straw for Roxanne. His patronizing attitude pushed her over the edge. Eyes red, she shouted at him, "You believe me? That's bullshit! You said the same thing back then too, but did you believe me then?"

Sebastian had been trying to speak to her gently, but she was still lashing out like this.

His temper snapped. "Fine! You say it wasn't you who drugged me, so where's your proof? Where is it?"