"Rose, can you first promise me that even if you get angry at me after I tell you about it, you won''t leave me? I''ll change. I know I did wrong, and it''s been eating away at my conscience."


    “Seb, quick, tell me what this is about," Rosalie said.


    She felt increasingly uneasy the more Sebastian spoke about it. She wasn''t worried about the wrong he did, but that he would fall ill from keeping his feelings to himself.


    Sebastian wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes with the napkin. "I had a fight with Theodore yesterday at the restaurant.”


    Rosalie nodded. "I know. It''s not your fault. I''m sure it was him who bullied you. He''s done it many times, and even fought with you before. I know it''s not your fault, so don''t me yourself for it."


    "No, I do me myself for it. Rose, hear me out, won''t you?"


    Rosalie nodded. "I will. Take your time and tell me about it. I''m listening."


    "After the meal yesterday, you left for a short while. The woman with Theodore left, too. Theodore and I were the only ones left. Theodore didn''t look very pleased with me, and kept looking at me strangely. After that, we had an argument, during which he kept hinting that you''re his woman and that he''d snatch you back one day. Although he didn''t explicitly say that, his words angered me. Rose, can you understand how I feel? The things he said..."


    "I can," Rosalie said as she held his hand. “Seb, I really can understand. Anyone would get angry. I know the kind of person he is, and the nonsense he''s capable of spouting."


    "I was so overwhelmed with anger at that time," Sebastian went on. "He said things that angered me. I was so furious, I charged toward him to question his ims. I even wanted to hit him because I was so angry. I''m sorry, I''m sorry..."Belonging ? N?velDram/a.Org.


    "It''s alright, I understand how you feel. He angers people easily. Even I lost control and hit him before, not to mention you. You don''t need to apologize to me over this."


    It was only human to get angry, and it was hard to control one''s emotions in face of provocation. There was no need to me Sebastian for it. "Not just that," Sebastian went on. "Even though this incident was his fault, I did something after that."


    "What did you do?" Rosalie asked uneasily.


    "He actually...didn''t push me down.


    He merely shook my hand off. I youing, and pretended to


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    and bit my head. I wanted you to misunderstand him."


    Rosalie was stunned to hear


    Sebastian''s confession. She looket


    at him in shock, unable to process whathe just said. It was as if she had heard him wrongly.


    How could Sebastian do something so cunning? She wasn''t dreaming or hallucinating. She even pinched her arm and could feel the pain.


    The disbelief in her eyes made Sebastian add hurriedly, "Are you angry at me?"


    He held her hand tight.


    "Rose, you''re angry at me, aren''t you?"


    Rosalie pulled her hand away and said in shock, "Why did you do something like that? No matter how


    angry you were, you shouldn''t have framed someone else!"


    Although Rosalie didn''t sound angry, and even sounded calm, the disbelief in her eyes was an indication of how taken aback she was.


    In her eyes, Sebastian was an upright man, chivalrous and righteous in everything he did. How could he possibly do something so sinister?