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?"

love for her also because of who she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how

strong love could only come out of a glance of one day,

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

over Ava before the sun goes down, then I will

you are right," In the end,

sunlight pulls our shadows so long that it reaches into the darkness in the corner where the sun can't shine on, Sebastian lets out a resighed laugh,

the truth

doesn't matter now."

of my first love ends here, but, for what it's worth, it has an ending as pretty as its

as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his arm as he deepens the

It ended anyway, so why not? This is

deserves this kiss, and so does

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

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