Thirty nine

SCARLET POV

I shouldn't have called him a rapist when I had a lot of reason to believe that Raphael was not guilty of raping me in the past, especially after I had listened to Bianca's recollection of what she had witnessed that night. I could also remember that, that morning he had been just as surprised to see me when he'd gotten up...

They said drunk people always spoke the truth, and he'd literally blamed himself for failing to protect me... So I was going to forgive him and cut him out of my revenge plan, but he needed to stop hovering over me and messing with my head... If he continued to dig, he was going to find out kinds of stuff about me... Maybe he already has judging from everything he'd dumped on me the day before.

If I didn't put a stop to his obsession, he was going to ruin all of the plans that were already in motion. He already knew so much as it was.

He was going to get in the way... It was already bad that every time he came near me my brain refused to do whatever I