Continuation of "Gone with the Wind"

Chapter 13 Goodbye Ashley

Two weeks later, Scarlett finally boarded the train to Charleston.

The past two weeks have been running around like a wind-up toy, busy arranging everything.She stored Wade Ella and Prissy in Tara like luggage, and secretly reached an agreement with Suellen without telling Will, and sent them to Suellen every month on the grounds of sending alimony. Ren has enough money to renovate the house and the road.She knew that without further ado, Suellen had long been dissatisfied with the broken Tara, and would go to great lengths to spend the money to fix it.Although she was as greedy as herself--Scarlett had to admit that her sister and herself were carved out of the same mold--she was more vain, so there was no need to worry about her getting rich.She went back to Atlanta once, handed over the grocery store and the lumberyard to Uncle Henry (she had to rehire that Johnny she hated), and reopened the bar.As for Ashley, India had been icily blocking the door from her to see him, but she had agreed to go to the grocery store regularly to pick up Beau's clothes and shoes.Scarlett was sure that if she found out that it was free, she would not be polite.She had been looking for a chance to have a good talk with Ashley, but India never gave her the chance.In fact, she has never known what kind of mentality she should use to face him now. Of course she hated him, hated him for making her unable to see her true love clearly, hated him for letting her destroy her own happiness with her own hands.But now, watching him become decadent day by day, she couldn't help but feel pity for him.Although her pity has always been accompanied by contempt for the person involved.

But she didn't expect that Ashley would take the initiative to come to her, just a few days before her departure.That day she was choosing the clothes she should wear for the trip, comparing which styles and colors would not be disgusted by the conservative and traditional Charlestonians, and which ones could attract Rhett's attention.Just as she had chosen a black velvet dress, she heard the servant tell her that Mr. Wilkes was waiting to see her in the drawing room.

She hurried downstairs, not in anticipation but in surprise and renewed anger.But when she really saw his face, she was so shocked by his appearance that she was speechless again.How much he has changed. He is only in his 30s, and his hair, which used to be like golden sunshine, has almost all turned gray, turning into a grassland scorched by the sun.He sat quietly on the sofa, his gray-blue eyes were as cloudy as heavily polluted sea water, only a faint light like a candle in the wind was buried in the bottom of his eyes.The back that used to be straight is now bent like a seriously ill old man, and the whole body is shrouded in a thick, fog-like sadness.It was this image of a late failed hero that made her feel strange involuntarily, and even forgot the swear words she had prepared long ago.

"Scarlett." When she was at a loss, Ashley slowly stood up from the sofa and walked towards her. "I came today to apologize to you, and I have one more thing to tell you." His voice trembled like a boat on water, although the poor helmsman tried his best to control it.

"Okay, Ashley, I don't want to hear anything. I don't want to blame you, although I wanted to slap you in the face just now, but I'm not in the mood now. You go." Scarlett calmed down Expressed his own mood, said in a flat tone.For some reason, she felt that she was very similar to Rhett when he left that night. She was surprised that her mood was so calm, facing this man she had loved wrongly for more than ten years.Rhett was right, her love for Ashley was completely worn out.Did Naruit really lose his love for him?When she thought of this, her heart ached fiercely, and she quickly ordered herself not to confuse these two things together.Rhett loved her more than she loved Ashley, and his love would not be lost so easily.