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,

we understood. She was the healthy one, so of course she was jealous of Ava when Ava was the fragile baby doll that required constant attention. After a while, we got tired of her jealousy,

she never got what she deserved to have in the first place. We just decided by ourselves that she should grow out of what she

Now she did.

no longer wants our attention. I could feel

I forced her to look at me,

no longer

all she did was to stop

a hard time not laughing at him. They quickly clear the space for us. I look at him rubbing his shoulder with a painful look, wondering if he would be bothered too if he was there three days ago. "Why are you so mean to Scar?" I blurt

his eyebrows, having a hard

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question I didn't know I would ever ask

to Ava," I try to

me. But she never did anything to

you think?! She hates us!" Gabriel exclaims as if I missed something obvious. She

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

adopted orphan hate the family that put a roof over her head... if she wasn't

dare not follow that string of

I tell Gabriel, feeling heavy. I don't know how to tell Gabriel that it was Scar