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.

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

a touch of rebellion

angry, panicking.

never knew

Ava because he found 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,

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 years, loved another horrible girl because

me for who I was, and he

either.

+25 BONUS

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

at that time.

I have wanted, 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

snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of

I should have known.

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

Not me.

for what he did, he still can't see me with basic fairness. He can't see me over Ava's horrible lies about me and see that I have the qualities he claimed to love. I

Fool me once.