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Chapter_96
Sadie’s heart was pounding in her chest as she stumbled along the road, still reeling from the sudden turn of events. The car had driven off, its powerful engine roaring into the night, leaving her alone in the dark, her mind swirling with disbelief. The ruby necklace—a symbol of her misjudgment and misplaced assumptions—was now lost, and her pride had been shredded along with it.
Micah’s words echoed in her mind, his cold, mocking tone cutting through the silence. “Do I look blind to you?” His words were as sharp as a knife, leaving no room for doubt in her mind about how he saw her. To him, she was nothing more than an object to use and dispose of when convenient.
The sting of humiliation burned in her chest, but she refused to give in to despair. She had to find the necklace. It was her only link to the person she had pretended to be in front of Micah. Without it, she feared she would have nothing left. She pulled her dress up and scanned the road, hoping the necklace had been thrown somewhere nearby where she could recover it.
The road was quiet, bathed in the cold glow of the streetlights, the wind rustling the trees in the distance. Sadie knelt down, hands trembling as she searched the darkened pavement, every crack in the asphalt seeming to mock her as she couldn’t find the necklace. Her mind raced. What if it had been thrown into the bushes? Or worse, into the gutter where it could never be retrieved?
Minutes stretched into what felt like hours as she frantically searched, her hope diminishing with every second. Her fingers scraped the rough surface of the road, desperate to find anything that might be the precious piece of jewelry.
Suddenly, something glinted in the light—there it was, the ruby necklace, partially buried under a pile of fallen leaves. Sadie let out a breath she hadn’t realized she was holding as she reached out to grab it, her hands shaking as she picked it up.
Her fingers traced the edges of the ruby, its brilliance still intact despite being tossed aside. She had found it, but at what cost? What was she supposed to do now? Micah’s cold dismissal rang in her ears, and the reality of her situation hit her with full force. He had never cared for her the way she had imagined, and now she was left holding a necklace that symbolized everything she had tried to make out of her fleeting moment of hope.
As she stood up, clutching the necklace tightly to her chest, she knew that her life had just shifted in ways she couldn’t understand yet. She had underestimated Micah, and now, she was paying the price.
