She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

175 Proof Of His Heart

Scarlett's POV

"I appreciate your trust," This is the first words from Sebastian on our way to the Fuller's.

"I'm not letting you be with Ava alone," I fold my arms and look away.

He lets out a slight laugh.

I do trust him. I trust that he doesn't lie, and I trust that he thinks he has been doing the right things. But that's it. I am not trusting him with a lot of things, even with things about Ava aside. He doesn't know about my conncections with the Vanderbilt, and he doesn't know about Ava's lie, and...our baby.

"--" I hesitate, weighing which secret might be the slightest to tell, "What changed your attitude toward me, all of a sudden?"

I want to know if I can trust him with any of my big secrets.

He glances at me in the rare view mirror, and a bitter smile crawls onto his lips with a shade of irony.

""What?" I frown.

"Nothing," He looks straight at the road, answering as if he is in an interview, "I guess I have always felt like I was forced to be with you, but the divorce lifted that dark shadow that has been blinding me from my true feelings. I started seeing things from different angles, and I realized how wrong I have been."

So all I needed to do was to leave?

I didn't force your hand...would you

wish that he would say yes. Because that would give the past five years a little sense -- I only did that because I saw no other way to expose Ava's lie to him at that moment. But if he weren't going

know,"

I glare at him. What kind of answer

tell the truth. I

are mad at my answer right now," He laughs, darting his sight from the road to me

mad at your lie!" I roll my eyes,

if would never be true. I married you, and I fell in love with you. That's what happened. I don't live in regretting the past because regret can't change

back to life in my mind. We don't necessarily share all values about life, but he always surprises me with his, making

need to talk to you about," I blurt. I almost blurted "I'm with your baby", but it's truly not the time for it.

to assure me. For no good reason, I

-- Ava is waiting by the gate out of

said you were coming alone," Ava folds her arms with a reluctant tone when I get out of the car, pouting. Sebastian stops the car by the side of the road, coming

in private, but I didn't think you'd honor me all the way to the gate," I glance at the villa behind her.

nods lightly at

him, tears coming out instantly but

a moment," She turns to me and I cock my eyebrow. She hasn't been behaving like this for a while now. She did this in the first years of our marriage, when she wasn't sure of Sebastian's attitude toward me. It was after that she saw he didn't care about me,

been.

changed his attitude toward me, it's

"Well, you--" can't.