She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

202 Homcoming

"Let me in! How dare you stop me?!" Ava shouts again, presumably at his secretary. But Mateo wouldn't let her in, not after Sebastian almost fired him the last time he did that.

The man finally moves. He stands up and goes for the door. A storm formed in his sullen eyes. The storm comes from the photo he was staring at, but the person in the photo is not here to take the heat. "Who was shouting?" Sebastian opens his door, asking in an almost gentle tone.

That shuts up Ava quite effectively. She pouts, but she dares not to raise her voice agian. Mateo bows at Sebastian, and Ava takes her chance to sneak around Mateo to Sebastian.

"Did you give my spot to her?!" Ava demands with tears in her eyes.

"I gave what spot to who?" Sebastian frowns, his tone already impatient and it distinguishes Ava's tiny flare of anger.

"I mean...I thought I was going to be the homecoming queen..." Ava's demand becomes murmur, "Adrian even agreed to rerelease the movie on that day, for me..."

Sebastian tilts his head slightly at the woman in front of him, wondering how she can be so thick at most of the time, yet successfully tricked him for so long. He hasn't been talking to Adrian since five years ago, but he knows Adrian. There is no way that man did this for Ava.

If Adrian really agreed to it, it's because Adrian caught the wind about Scar's return.

Scar never agreed to another visit from him no matter how hard he tried. Submitting a request for visit became his daily routine until one day he noticed that the inmate he required to visit had been transferred, to where he wasn't allowed to know. That was when he finally realized -- he had lost her, completely.

He wasn't even allowed to know her whereabouts. He has been looking for her ever since, yet with little fruit out of his effort. Until today. Yet Adrian got it so easily. That can only mean one thing--

Scar wanted Adrian to know. She only hid her whereabouts from him, and him alone.

the sour sting

she is. So long as she is back. Nothing else

homecoming celebration at some local high," The pain in his chest makes Sebastian's words colder than usual, and Ava

"Sorry--"

apology barely lands before the man turns and shuts the

blocks the door with her hand, and to her extreme

"What now?"

tries to squeeze into

talk here like everyone else," The man's voice is

off-limit to her. Ava bites her lips, trying hard to hold back her tears. She knows for a fact that all

dare not

she doesn't have the

e'

He is mad at her. That much she knows. She forced him to marry her, just like Scarlett did. She thought she could change his heart like Scarlett, too. But she hasn't

has been living in fear of the other shoe dropping, and the return of

tame smile, "You said you were having a business meeting

there a question in there somewhere?" Sebastian

smile freezes for a second at his cold tone, "Just...I thought maybe we could go home together, now that your meeting is done...?" Ava hooks her fingers together, twisting her hip a little,

would work on this man. And it fails, like all the

"I'm busy."