CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE – REUNION

"He made me feel so...so cheap, Sebastian. As if I were just some frivolous plaything for him to toy with until he inevitably grew bored and cast me aside." She swiped angrily at the dampness clinging to her lashes. "How could I have allowed someone like that to make me feel so diminished?" There was a heavy pause on the other end of the line as Sebastian digested it all. When he finally responded, his voice was low and thoughtful. "I think...the heart wants what it wants, even if the motivations behind that wanting are murky at best. You're only human, Mads - a passionate creative who has so much fire inside you. It's only natural that an equally intense personality like this Jean-Pierre's would prove..captivating on some level." Madison made a skeptical sound in the back of her throat, but Sebastian pressed on, undeterred. "That's not an excuse for how he treated you in the end, of course. His dismissive arrogance was appalling and you have every right to feel angry and denigrate