She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

190 Chose Wrong

Sebastian's POV

"What happened?" I ask Jack Fuller. Something triggered Ava. She only saw Scar and I earlier today, and she was fine leaving in her newfound brother's arms.

"She was calling you before we found her in her room, blood-soaked," Jack Fuller nails his resentment-filled eyes at me, "So you tell me, what happened to my daughter?! She LOVED you!" His voice lost shape when he burst out the word love, and it was the first moment I realized that--

She didn't love me. She never did. She WANTED me.

She demanded my time, my love, my indulgence, and she would be happy only when she got something she wanted from me. She never cared about what I wanted, not like Scar did.

"I'll go see her," I open the door to her ward, not wanting to waste time on Jack Fuller.

The ward is completely dark and quiet. Ava is curling up under the cover, facing us with her back. Hard to tell whether she is asleep, or just upset and refusing to talk.

"She just fell asleep, waiting for you," Jack Fuller blocks between me and the room. His words instantly lit up a furious fire in my chest, "If you are going in like this, all riled up and ready for a fight, then maybe you shouldn't."

summon me here in the middle of the night, just to tell me to sit in the hallway waiting for their daughter to get the rest that she couldn't have gotten without me?

play me like this?" I grab his collar and push him against the wall, "Let me make it clear, my help to Ava, AND your

with utter fear, his face pale with blood draining from

really want to smash his despicable

husband, and I let him go and dodges her. Scar cares about her, well, more than any other Fullers. I don't want

hard time keeping my voice calm, "This is the last time I'll help any of you! You better tell Ava that when

effort holding back my anger at Jack Fuller, but I know I'm actually

fucking chose wrong again!

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everything else, I should have known that everything can be turned into a weapon for someone who manipulates, even their

indulgence that

way again, "Please! I'm sorry for what I said! I was just

go! If you leave

again if you are not here when she wakes up! Please! You

will come to see her when she snaps out of the illusion that she can blackmail

gave her this desperation!" Frankly, even if I said I wouldn't help