She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

136 Lie To Me

Sebastian's POV

I was pleasantly surprised that Scar would initiate a talk, only to realize - Scar wants something from me.

She is a free spirit, the opposite of Ava. She says what she thinks, and she does what her heart tells her to. Always. But not when she wants something. She turns into a different person, a tame girl who tries her best to behave, to flatter, to restrain. I used to scorn at that. I felt like she was always asking for something when Ava never asked for things. On top of that, she does it in a timid, almost scared way and I didn't like it.

Scar would ask all my friends but me about what I might like to get me "the right" gift, and ask me if I liked the gift when she gave it to me. If I said "yes", she would smile so brightly with a timid question" Then do I get a full day with you? Just us?"

I didn't like Scar's "hidden conditions" for the gifts, so I hated it when she gave me gifts. I felt like there were always traps behind it. I never thought about how hard it was for her to get anything she wanted. I never understood her timidness behind those questions. If it were Ava, she would just say "Next Sunday I want to go to the beach, you are coming, right?"

I was so blind.

being afraid of rejections because I have given her too many of them. Scar's "wishes" were simple demands that I should have provided as her husband even without her asking! She only asked because I failed her in the first

proved her right, over and

a requirement of me again. But I know she wouldn't take that kind of risk with me again. Not out of fear this time. She just doesn't care

try awkwardly to steal, to trick, to lie, than to just

wanted me drunk for her plan,

woman who used to tell me to not drink unless necessary because alcohol gives me stomachaches. This is the woman who used to stay up with me in a bar when I wanted to drink my struggle away, and

does actually cute? From the moment I started seeing her in this different light, I could not go back. It was like I was put under a spell for so

get me drunk, then I will indulge her. Even if her smile is nothing but a poisonous lie, I have to swallow. I fear if I ask her straight up,

hurting. To

136 Lie To Me

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before. Not once. She hated lies, and she insisted that honesty is the solid base for a