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?"

because of who she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see

strong love could only come out of a glance

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

Ava, if you choose me over Ava before

right," In the end,

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

and the truth so

doesn't matter now."

burns them, smiling at the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for what it's worth, it has an ending as pretty as its

touches my lips. Startled, I open my eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his

kiss. It ended anyway, so why not? This is

deserves this kiss, and so does the

girl, or maybe you are. It doesn't matter anymore because that's not why I proposed to Ava!" When he finally finishes that long kiss, he blurts like a machine gun as I pant for air," protected her for that, 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 I found them. I loved her like my little sister until she proposed

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