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.

Ava's eyes, and said that all he

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

shocked, confused, angry, panicking.

never knew

the wrong girl. 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 a decade after

because of "his feelings for that little girl", but what I felt

never saw me for who I was, and he never saw

either.

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

WAS touched, at that time. And that one shred. of

time. I didn't know what else to do. If I went to him to tell him "the truth", he would hate me

he could love a vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he

I should have known.

could be tricked for so long, then it's no longer a trick. If he stayed friends with Ava even though she was nothing that

Not me.

fairness. He can't see me over Ava's

Fool me once.

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