She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

103 Grew Up With Love Scarlett's

POV

"Are you sure you are okay? You can cry if you want to Adrian asked for the third time I got back into his car. I told him he didn't have to wait for me, but he was still where he parked when I came out, just as surprised as I was when he saw me.

I'm not that sad. Not like when I found out about the truth of my "family", about how each one of them betraded me and wanted to cut things off me. They bought my life for their beloved daughter, what's so wrong in that?

I'm actually happy now that their daughter is finally cured. They don't need me anymore.

"Ava is perfectly okay now. Her status is stable," I tell Adrian, feeling a long-lost lightness, "Maybe they won't even chase after me if I were to tell them that I'm leaving."

"She's cured only by exploiting you!" Adrian rolls his eyes, complaining resentfully

"I mean, to think about it, they paid for my life and my education, I would have dealt with them if they straight up told me that the condition would be providing her my blood and bone marrow, or more, your know?" I'm surprised at how my whole life is such a big joke, yet I'm able to laugh at it, genuinely, "For an orphan who might not have a decent future, don't you think I also got a lot out of it?"

"If they no longer need your blood, then you don't have to leave in such a hurry," Adrian suggests with a cautious tone, "You have friends here, and a job, need I remind you?"

my flat true love romance!" I lie back into the seat, laughing with him,

to know."

but infected by my good mood, he laughs in

the sky. He puts on a painful look, umbling something about that only got

lightness of a huge burden off my shoulders. This is the place where I threw out my torn flight tickets with Aurora not so long ago. That time even the bright sun out there in

the black cloud

myself, my friends who care about me, and a real family waiting for me on the other side of a

one, but it started with me being saved. I'm glad I grew up with love in my

to your hard?" I ask, suddenly noticed a cut on the joints of his

his right hand briefly with an indifferent glance, adding when he sees

+25 BONUS

if I told you

I flinch backward, murmuring. Good thing I'm leaving, which would be easier for him to shake off the

resigned look before bursting into laughter, "Just an

roll my eyes.