She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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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.

Scar for 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!

proved her right,

everything if she could make a requirement of me again. But I know she wouldn't take that kind of risk with me again. Not out of fear this

try awkwardly to steal, to trick, to lie, than to just ask me for

her drink to me. Realizing she wanted me

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 then give me the pill to ease my headache. Not that I would reject her now, but her

is everything she does actually cute? From the moment I started seeing her in this different light, I could not go back. It was like I was

indulge her. Even if her smile is nothing but a poisonous lie, I have to swallow. I fear if I ask her straight up, I wouldn't even get

hurting. To

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to me before. Not once. She hated lies,