She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Chapter 21

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Sebastian's POV

I have never seen Scar so happy with her laughter reaching her eyes....when she left with her friends.

She never laughs with me, she just smiles at me-

she used to smile at me, but not anymore. Not for months. But even before when she did, it was different from the laugh she had with her friends. Her smile at me was always timid and restrained, like a puppy scared of being hurt, but also desperately flatters people for foo She wasn't happy with me. I made sure of that.

I thought I was just "not loving" her. I didn't. I don't! And because of that, I never cared if I was hurting her. She forced my hand, and I used that to justify everything.

The past three days were really rough for me.

I couldn't stop thinking about Scar's accusation, of how horribly we have been treating her. I felt sick of myself every time I think of the phrase "blood vessel". I kept searching in my memory for clues to justify my actions. Maybe she deserved it, maybe she brought that to h way.

I couldn't find any.

She is jealous of Ava, but she has never harmed Ava on purpose. Even the "paper cut accident" was just an accident. She wanted everyone's attention, and we punished her for that, by giving her even less.

able to justify that,

Ava when Ava was the fragile baby doll that required constant

she never got what she deserved to have in the first place. We just

Now she did.

she no longer wants our attention. I could feel

used to notice me changing into an identical shirt, but today when I forced

no longer sees

she did was

look at him rubbing his shoulder with a painful look, wondering

his eyebrows, having

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I didn't know I would ever ask him

are a good brother to Ava," I try to explain, "so why

Scar blackmailed me. But she never did anything

us!" Gabriel exclaims as if I missed something

her that she was adopted! You know, not linked by blood. Bound to happen.

family that put a roof

follow

know how to tell Gabriel that it was Scar who brought up divorce... Not