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???

him against me for years when she knew

if I didn't nurture that love over this decade!" Ava fights back as if she really believes in this logic, "I bet you enjoyed it very much when you told him that I wasn't

tip because I will try to enjoy it when I do," I roll my eyes, bored of our meaningless

me, and I

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

want?!" Ava raises her voice, only to nervously glance in Sebastian's direction. Seeing that he is too far away to hear us, she relaxes a bit, "I'm warning you, Scarlett

her. Sometimes I wonder what's in this woman's head.

he can

be so patient with Ava right now, "But he is dangerous, with power even your dear father can't begin to match. I know you think I hate you. I don't like you, for many reasons

me off with a cold snort, "Do you really think the Vanderbilts would take an infamous

I'm daunted in

blunt attack out

few seconds, did I finally understand what she was talking

knew?" I murmur, staring at her in disbelief. The last shred of sunlight hits us from sideways, making her face half bloody and half in a dark