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.

necklace on the newspaper to get

wanted to tell

Johnny Vanderbilt cut off his son coldly, "Tell me it's not because you

only to utter

father knows his son

Jack Fuller's deal, and I knew how Scar showed no interest of joining her family. Damian told me everything. But Johnny Vanderbilt saw through Damian like an open book, and he hit

to me, a cold glare in his august eyes, "Sebastian Knight. I knew your grandmother personally, and I respect her a lot. That's the only reason why my fist is not landing on

Johnny Vanderbilt didn't give me any room to answer

darted my shocked look to Damian,

"I mean,

didn't." Johnny

was a man who cut

about her, but you can't replace her

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

didn't hurt

enough to give that to her. None of her adopted father, her adopted mother she once loved, her

the worst sinner

granddaughter Alice... only because Scar seems to want to keep

glares at him with eyes

she hated

his cold face, "Don't you think the mother should have a say in

plea with desperation, "Alice is still in a critical stage, and Scar can't take 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 say in

I panicked.