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.

Sebastian looked into Ava's eyes, and said that all

that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch of rebellion that

angry, panicking. Everything

never knew

was brave, and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing

it 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

for who I was, and he never saw Ava for

either.

+25 BONUS

Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought

deep down, I WAS touched, at that time. And that

good in all this ball of lies, made me finally gather courage, to ask the boy for what I have wanted, what he said HE wanted, for the first time. I didn't know

as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent with me, then maybe, MAYBE, I had a chance

I should have known.

If he stayed friends with Ava even though she was nothing that he "loved", then it's

Not me.

with basic fairness. He can't see me over Ava's horrible lies

Fool me once.