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 a hint of the

wanted to

son coldly, "Tell me it's not because you wanted to judge whether your sister deserves

his mouth, only to

knows his son

to look into 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,

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

my shocked look to Damian,

mean, I'm her father and I love her. I would

didn't." Johnny

was a man who cut through all the

know you care about her, but you

fine with doing that to my Alice," Johnny Vanderbilt lets out a low,

I didn't hurt Scar any less than

that to her. None of 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 didn't. Yet I hurt

the worst

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

glares at him with eyes like

did because she hated me..."

than his cold face, "Don't you think the mother should have a say in this?" The mother didn't even

anymore. Please, Scar can have her say in just a few weeks--" "I'm sorry," Johnny Vanderbilt turns

I panicked.