Chapter 38 You Are Not Some Savior

Gardenia did not feel it, not at all. She had only accepted Ian's proposal because it felt like the practical thing to do. She'd have to get married eventually, and as far as she could tell, he seemed decent. But to say she was ready to spend the rest of her life with him, she had never even considered it. She couldn't even understand why she had to think that far ahead. Why did she have to consider doing things for the rest of her life? Was she supposed to end up like Camelia, who endured everything in silence even after Anthony became violent, gambled away everything, and abandoned his wife and child, just for the sake of keeping a family together right up until the day she died? Camelia once told her it was because she loved Anthony too much that she couldn't accept that the man she loved had changed. That was why she would rather die than admit she'd loved someone she shouldn't. That kind of love was too scary. Gardenia swore she would never fall in love with anyone. Even th