She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

214 Merciful Mask

"Gabriel," Scar suddenly turns to the big dumb bear, "There was a time when you bullied me at school and were caught by the teacher. When my teacher asked you to give her mom's number, you said the wrong number before you quickly changed it. Except it wasn't a 'wrong' number, was it? It was the number you were told to memorize when you were a kid before it was changed to her current one. Why did she use this phone number for twenty years without any trouble when you had to memorize two?" Gabriel opens his mouth like a big mole who digs through its ceiling to the ground by accident.

"Mom...?" Gabriel stammers, looking at Anna like a lost boy. He doesn't know how he could not fall into Scar's trap.

There is no way because it's not a trap. It's an endless dark hole in his mom's past that as much as she's trying, she's failing to cover up.

"That's too stretched, don't you think?" Ava struggles, "Just because of a name and a random mistake"

"Silco pulled the info of the owner who owned that number on that specific day! Do you need me to tell you in detail how she dumped that card and never even went to cancel the service only days after that?!" Scar cuts Ava off impatiently, "Did you need me to throw that file in your damn face before you can shut the fuck up and own up to your fucking actions?!"

Ava purses her lips, but instead of looking at Anna with puppy dog eyes like Gabriel as if Anna could somehow get out of it, Ava darts her eyes to her father, as if looking for a solution rather than an explanation-

Ava has no doubt of what Scar said. She is just looking for a way out.

Ava has always been painted as an innocent angel like Anna Fuller, while Gabriel is the muscle who does her dirty work like Jack for Anna. But in fact...

scheming father who is practical as hell, while

down, all the way to Scar, so close that if she reaches out, she could cup Scar's face. She tried. She holds out her hand and Scar doesn't even flinch, but just lands her lazy cold glare on that hand, and Anna dares not to go further. "You are angry, I understand," Anna nods sorrowfully, tears

her lips

did send that

mistress of your

set

but love in her eyes, "I was your father's first love, that's why. It was a one-time mistake. A moment of rush. I had a huge fight with Jack that day, that's

in the room

mumbles. Disbelief shatters

the room, Gabriel's murmur is the first thing that cracks her calm, merciful

nailed on the sofa as if his soul already left him.

outright flirted with a married man, asked him to marry her, caused

was"? A couple's fight in their

lights up in Scar's