She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

072 Trapped Soul

Sebastian's POV

Jim took the shotgun. Upon Justin's words, he exchanges a glance with me in the rear mirror with an unexplainable look. That's a look mixed with confusion, surprise, and condemnation.

Condemn that the story I told him was obviously biased. I told him what I heard from Justin, and because I trusted Justin, I assumed that was the truth. I forgot how people can make mistakes, even if they meant well. I don't think Justin lied to me,. but I think he didn't tell the whole story because...

He didn't know the whole truth.

Justin looks me right in the eyes, and I see a lost kid who is crying for help with the desperation in the tears twirling in there.

"Justin, tell me what happened," Using a firm but gentle tone, I grab the back of his neck and knead, like how I did with my little brother, "You can tell me. I'm here for you."

H

"I don't know...!" The moment he opens his mouth, he burst into a hysterical rant, I'm so fucking tired! I don't know what to do! Everything I do is horrible, is hurting her, is wrong! I'm neglecting her if I work, and I'm too clingy when I spend time with her! I'm only allowed to fu what she's doing with it! She turned into this mean, cold, manipulative monster! I don't recognize the girl who took care of me during my eye surgery at all! I-"

What?

eyes with his arm. His ears, actually his whole face and neck are red

a mess if I didn't come

I only started when he

back and forth, turning back to

promised her...I

""Whatever you

back, "Whatever it is that

072 Trapped Soul

+25 BONUS

It's very

at his pure love of acting. No matter how small a role, he would put his all in and make it memorable. I don't see that sunny kid anymore. Just an old man trapped in his physically young body. "You can't..." He mumbles, more to himself than to us, "She was so kind a soul...I just wish

probably during the recovery period after the

to show me, "actually it was my head, and the clot pressed on my optic nerves. I

took care of you?" I can somewhat guess

sun during that hard time," Justin lets out a sigh, but a faint smile on his face when he pulls up that memory, "I didn't know if I would ever see her again, and she fed me, talked to me and walked me through those abominable surgeries. She was a patient there I don't think a broken leg would hospitalize one for a year.