081 A Gamble On Life

Scarlett's POV

I wouldn't even know that he didn't sign the papers if the policeman hadn't found the folder in Liam Ryan's belongings and checked the content.

Sebastian raises his hand, and I hand it over, only to notice that both our hands are shaking visibly.

"Are you alright?" Sebastian takes my arm instead of the folder, his other hand. holding my shoulder, "You are freezing! Did you take the hot cocoa-?"

His eyes land on the milk beside me. I only had a few sips.

"I haven't had anything for more than a day, what did you expect?" I push him away, sitting down at the back of the ambulance, seeing black spots in front of my eyes as I try to adjust to my dizzy head. I was too shocked by the near- death experience and the medical staff suggested a short rest first.

Talking to Sebastian is not a rest. It boils my blood at the price of my little remained

energy.

right now, and I know you are mad at me," After a hesitation, Sebastian says in a low voice, "I just want to let you

I didn't know I had such anger in me until the curse burst out of me, "What are you looking for from me? To say that you didn't do anything wrong? That you should choose Ava Fuller at the price of my

again, "You have every right to blame me, and I know you are scared. I

if you choose to let Ava die, Liam Ryan would have done it without hesitation," I nod, shaking my

his thoughts

You understood that?!" Sebastian's voice raised with pleasant surprise," Thank God, Scar! I didn't

fury in my chest burns brighter and brighter as I look at him, the man I once loved,

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sometimes there isn't a way to do the right thing. while having it AND eating

co-exist with Ava, and he doesn't seem to understand that

you risked

failed at that, "You "THINK' your strategy can keep the both of us safe, but that's just a

chair from where you were. Did you honestly think you could have caught mine

Sebastian's face, and that gives me the vicious sweetness of revenge. I

taking my blood for her, then I wouldn't be so desperate that I'd be lured to Ava at midnight

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