She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

014 Mr. Knight’s Ex

014 Mr. Knight's Ex

Scarlett's POV

I want to sit down right there on the staircase and let the overwhelming emptiness gulp me, but I dare not. I know if I let it, then I will stay beaten. I will lose the strength I'm pretending to have and collapse

I thought I could let go of Sebastian. Ever since I walked into their kiss three months ago, I have been preparing for this day. I did it.

It just hurts more than I expected.

Closing my eyes, I try to chase Sebastian out of my head. I just need something, anything, to take up the hole left in my heart now that I carved him out.

Something I could value. Something for myself. I lived my life around him, but I used to have a life of my own. I used to have friends to laugh and cry with, used to be competitive just like any student. I used to have a dream. Inave it

I was going to be a writer, before up and stayed home to build a family,

Richard Hanson.

Jack Fuller's mean face when he mentioned that name pops into my mind, like he was throwing a bone to a pitiful dog.

Anger burns in my chest, and magically, the pain dulls at that.

before I did. He thought he could threaten/lure me with my dream - the first script I ever wrote. He didn't evaluate its weight on my heart right only because I have long given up that dream for

had faith in me, and that's why he didn't help me when brought that to him, and that's why he

can buy my freedom with MY dream, so why not start there?

know just

phone,

Mr. Knight's ex-wife. Want it?

inbox after I sent that message. Only one new message is lying there.

to even care. Even to ask for my

didn't call either, nor did she reach out in any

message

[Coming home?]

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turn to, but just died in some corner that no one knows, he wouldn't even know until the cops find

stare at those two words, suddenly having such an urge to

papers seriously, or he doesn't understand what a divorce

no longer married? After that ugly fallout, after I saw clearly the true faces of these so- called "family", after he snatched the divorce papers out of me just in case I would go back on my words,

Are you coming home?

after his day of being Ava's loyal knight? To "clear" the misunderstanding, and "come to my senses" that they weren't being horrible to me by demanding my blood for Ava when they treated me like shit, to