She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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Sebastian's POV

I had a million things to do, but I couldn't leave the courthouse. Not when Scar was on trial.

I thought it would take an eternity, but it ended before I realized it.

And it didn't end well.

It felt like I barely settled down on the bench outside the court before Damian came out. Almost as if he forgot something and he just came out for a quick grab. Before I could even ask, he shook his head. How could he lose? He said he was confident! Even just going in there to wave a surrender would have taken longer!

"What happened?!"

"She..." Choakingly, Damian tried to squeeze some words out, "She pled guilty..."

"Then what was the point of you being there?! We need to make an appeal--"

"We can't. It's going to be a criminal charge, and there is little room to turn this around..." Damian stops talking, looking at a man striding toward us, and his look changes from surprise to fear, "Dad..." Johnny Vanderbilt. King of the Vanderbilt Empire, which he built with Scar's mom. It's a bit surprised to see him here, because Damian didn't dare tell him about any of this.

Slap!

Johnny Vanderbilt slapped Damian on the face, hard. Dmian's teeth cut his lips, and blood slowly oozed out. He kept his head low, standing straight in front of Johnny Vanderbilt like a little boy who knew he had broken something valuable of the house. And his silver-haired father just stood there, looking at him with an expression less face, like lustitia.

"Dad...you, you know...?" Damian couldn't look his father in the eyes, not when he just delivered his long lost sister to the court guards to be imprisoned.

to get a hint

to

Vanderbilt cut off his son coldly, "Tell me it's not because you wanted to judge whether your

his mouth, only

knows

into Jack Fuller's deal, and I knew how Scar showed no interest of joining her family. Damian told me everything.

your grandmother personally, and I respect

no problem with me taking my granddaughter away?" Johnny Vanderbilt didn't give me any room

look to

only to realize who I'm talking to, "I mean, I'm her father and I love her. I would do

Johnny

a man who cut through all

you care about her, but you can't

my Alice," Johnny Vanderbilt lets out a low, warmthless laugh,

Jack Fuller did, but I didn't

her adopted father, her adopted mother she once loved, her siblings, and most of all, me, if they had a motive to hurt her t

worst sinner

awkwardly, "We named your granddaughter Alice... only because Scar seems

glares at him with eyes like

because she

but his laughs looked more scary than his cold face, "Don't

any hit anymore. Please, Scar can have her say in just a few weeks--" "I'm sorry," Johnny Vanderbilt turns to me with an amused look, "Didn't you divorce my daughter already? Why do you think you still have a

I panicked.