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!

Ava a million of them, easy! He knew I would try to trick him and he lured me to name

my 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 give a flinch

china doll - Pinocchio with a

+35 BONUS

I might have

Yes, we. Ava would go out of her way to 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 tagged along. We saw the little doll on a street stall - by that I meant a piece of clothes

Ava loved it.

begged Sebastian to get it for her. She never keeps money on her 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

watch for that

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

how she prisoned herself in this tormenting darkness that she has to fear the one person she loves. And that

freeze where I

stares at me condemningly and I look away. I was wrong, but I don't want to apologize to him,

kiss and she ran. I didn't know! "Are you okay?" Ava says as she sticks her