She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Scarlett's POV

I stop, but I don't know how to turn around.

For a long moment I pause there, and for a long moment, he waits patiently behind me.

How great it would be, if he had asked me this question at ANY POINT in our marriage? If he had doubted Ava just a little bit in the long time window when I kept hope, I would have jumped to tell him the truth. If I had even a shred of confidence that he would have believed me, I would have.

But now...

I turn around, only to find him standing on the green grass when I'm already off on the cold blacktop. A hard line between us, like the five years that we can leap over. He looks at me with too complicated a look that I can't quite read. In his eyes are hope, struggle, hesitation, and...fear.

Fear of what? Of me being the girl he saved? Or not?

"The question is..." I take a deep breath just so I can look into his eyes, "Do you WANT me to be?"

of who she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how for ten years I have been the girl who had a crush on you when you could

a strong love could only come out of a glance of one day, but if it was...then maybe, maybe, I can try

maintain my smile as I count the seconds, giving myself a time limit as I wait

you loved Ava, if you choose me over Ava before the sun goes down,

right," In

pulls our shadows so long that it reaches into the darkness in the corner where

and the truth so long

doesn't matter now."

story of my first love ends here, but,

open my eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his

let me go. In tears, I close my eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so why not? This is the only kiss shared between us without hatred in his

was saved ten years ago deserves this kiss, and so does the boy who

yes! I took care of her for that, because saw the desperation in her eyes for her own home that day, and I wanted to keep her eyes clean as how

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