She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Chapter 55

055 The Perfect Crime

Scarlett's POV

I would have given everything for such a speech from him, five years ago.

Hell. I did give everything, when I asked for exactly what he is offering me today. If only he had been less cruel to me anywhere in the past five years; if only he believed Granny and did not let his emotion cloud his judgment. But life has no "if only". I'm not there anymore. I'm not excited, or happy. I'm just tired.

I just want to live my own life without them keep on hurting me.

I can't go back, not for Granny's wish, not for my coming baby, not for a Sebastian who still doesn't see me.

He still doesn't know that it was me who he saved in the woods, not Ava.

I only found out about this misunderstanding five years ago. When Ava came

bragging to me with a recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his wife in this lifetime.

eyes, and said that all he wanted to do was to protect the

she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch of rebellion that he had ever seen.

confused, angry,

never knew he

He said he cared about that little girl because she was brave, and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were both in front of him for

should be touching, that he ignored all Ava's faults and disadvantages because of "his feelings for that little girl", but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved for ten

I was, and he never saw Ava for who

either.

+25 BONUS

pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through her if she

I guess somewhere deep down, I WAS touched, at that

what he said HE wanted, for the first time. I didn't know what else to do. If I went to him to tell him "the truth", he would hate me even more and deem that a Ava knew, and that was why

bet. I bet that if he could love a vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent with me, then maybe, MAYBE, I had a chance at doing

I should have known.

even though she was nothing that he "loved", then it's Ava

Not me.

can't see me with basic fairness.

Fool me once.