Chapter 5

In my previous life, it was much later that I found out.

When Liam Davies was a child, his mother abandoned him at an amusement park, and he was briefly taken in by an orphanage.

There, he met a bright and cheerful little girl.

She slept in the same bed as him and gave him a piece of candy.

She was the only light in his life.

This light was Lily Adams.

And on her very first day transferring to our school, Liam recognized her.

He always deeply believed Lily’s claims that I bullied her and hated me to the bone.

Yet, constrained by his status as an illegitimate son, he had to swallow his pride and curry favor with me.

Because he needed to secure his position in his family through an alliance with me.

Thinking of this, I said, “Let’s break up.”

His pupils suddenly constricted: “…Why? Give me a reason, Scarlett.”

I pulled out a tissue and wiped my cheek where he had rubbed it, one slow wipe after another:

“I don’t want to date the son of a homewrecker. It feels dirty. Is that reason enough?”

After I left, Chloe Miller cautiously asked if I was possessed.

I wasn’t surprised she asked that.

Because in high school, I had loved Liam Davies so openly and intensely.