Chapter 271:
Julie's POV
I literally froze in place. It felt as if the blood had stopped flowing in my veins just hearing that word. I didn't show any reaction, as if the hands of the clock had suddenly stopped turning to make way for this confession to echo deep within me. For a moment, I thought perhaps I had drowned in a distant rosy dream, or that my exhausted mind had begun to hallucinate what I longed to hear... Was it possible, after all this imprisonment and humiliation, for his tongue to utter the words "I love you"?
In all those desolate nights I spent waiting for him to say it, he said it now in this moment when I expected nothing but more cruelty.
