She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

122 Ava's Heart

Scarlett's POV

This is a trap! A pure trap is what this is!!!

"What do you know about it?" I pretend to still have things in my control, deciding to trick my way through it.

Sebastian curves his lips as if he sees through me, but he says calmly:"

I know that Jack Fuller took something from your mom that day he brought you back. Does this worth mean anything to you?"

What?! My jaw drops to the ground, and he smirks, knowing he has won the negotiation.

It does mean something to me. It means the world to me! I thought I lost her years ago, and he is only telling me now that Jack the devil Fuller has something of hers in his possession?! "What is it and where is it?!" I demand. Sebastian grins and my heart drops

"A kiss, for this piece. Do we have a deal?"

Ahhhhh!

of them, easy! He knew I would try to trick him and he lured

hand and throw it at his head. Well, at the wall next to him. I don't want to go to prison for assault. Seeing through me, he doesn't even dodge, or even

another china doll - Pinocchio with a long nose held in

+35 BONUS

have crossed a

fidn reasons to join trips that I took with Sebastian. That was supposed to be our honeymoon trip - taken place almost a year after the wedding. And

Ava loved it.

I mean why would she? But Sebastian had only a card on him, which the guy with his toe sticking out of his broken shoes rejected. I had money, and she wouldn't

for that

face literally lit up the moment her Romeo got her that doll. I think I know why she loves it. I think that's what she wanted from Sebastian, so that doll can only be from Sebastian, because she wanted him to accept her even when her lie is exposed. She has a fear deeply rooted in her soul from the moment she lied to him, to the one person she ever

how she prisoned herself in this tormenting darkness that

freeze where I

knew I messed up. He stares at me condemningly and I look away. I was wrong, but I don't want to apologize to him, or her. "Sebastian?" Ava's timid voice rises by the door. Has she been

our kiss and she ran. I didn't know! "Are you