Chapter 58

Scarlett’s POV: My brows furrowed tightly, emotions storming behind my eyes. That parental checkup report… it had been the final straw. The one that crushed whatever lingering hope I had for Everett. I hadn’t questioned it before—not with all those rumors swirling, and not after seeing how Everett always jumped to Amelia’s defense whenever we fought. I’d always assumed Amelia had his full attention. That’s why she waved that report in my face with so much smugness. But today, Amelia cracked in a way I hadn’t seen before. During her scene with Miley, she slipped. She got too into it. Playing Mi Weini—a woman devastated by lost love—her eyes sparkled with something twisted, as if she was savoring the pain. Sure, she forced tears and put on a mask of guilt and heartbreak. But the gleam in her eyes? Fake. And dark. And when she broke down at the climax of the scene, the words she blurted out weren’t Mi Weini’s—they were hers. The kind that screamed: “I loved you. You left me.” She didn’t e