She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Chapter 21

021 Innocent Ava

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.

used to be able to

was the fragile baby doll that required constant

just decided by ourselves that she should grow out of

Now she did.

no longer wants our attention. I

changing into an identical shirt, but today when I forced her to

no longer

why does it sting so much, when all she did was to stop paying her attention to me? Is this how she feels this

are having a hard time not laughing at him. They quickly clear the space for us. I look at him rubbing his shoulder with a painful

Gabriel furrows his eyebrows, having a hard time understanding my

021 Innocent Ava

It was a question I didn't

I try to explain,

Scar blackmailed me. But she never did anything

Gabriel exclaims as

adopted! You know, not linked by blood.

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

follow that string of

wanted to leave the city..." I tell Gabriel, feeling heavy. I don't know how to tell Gabriel that it was Scar