She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Scarlett's POV

"Are you here to gloat?!"

The whole villa was covered in the twilight's dim orange glow, casting a surreal bloody shade on the lake's clear green surface. Sebastian stops by the beech tree closest to the lake, and I walk over to Ava, who stands on the dock that reaches over the water, arms folded

in front of her chest. These are her first words when I approach.

I look back at Sebastian. He leans against the beech tree with one leg curled up casually, too far to see clear of his look.

"Why didn't you say that when he could hear you?" I retort back, and Ava turns around with a deadly calm look. At the moment, I do not fully understand this look.

"You finally stole him from me. He won't reply to my texts, and he won't even talk to me anymore. Are you happy now?" Ava says coldly, ignoring my sarcasm, "You don't even love him. You took him away just because I love him."

"That's exactly what YOU did to me! You stole him from me when you didn't even know him!" I laugh in disbelief. Is this how she justifies everything she has done? By lying to herself, too???

we live in the same world??? She kept Sebastian and turned him against me for years when she knew I was the little girl Sebastian wanted to protect, and that's her

back as if she really believes in this logic, "I bet you enjoyed it very much when you told him that I wasn't that piece of trash he rescued!" At that moment I thought about letting Damian

when I do," I roll

to slap me, and I catch

when she starts struggling. I glance at Sebastian, but he is

Sebastian's direction. Seeing that he is too

to stop her. Sometimes I wonder what's in this

can be

even your dear father can't begin to match. I know you think I hate you. I don't like you, for many reasons

the Vanderbilts would take an infamous girl

What?! I'm daunted in

attack out of

herself Only after a few seconds, did I finally understand what she was talking about. And she bursts into laughter at the

face half bloody and half in a dark shadow. So her outburst earlier about misunderstanding my intention on Damian Vanderbilt was albbut an act? To divert me from the