She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

219 Omen Feeling

"So...you really trust this... Silco?" Lilith asks Scar with her eyes still on Alice, who's just a few inches away, laughing on the carousel as it runs around.

Spent most of her life on a private island, entertainment parks are like miracle lands to Alice. And the bright smile on her chubby little face makes it so hard for Lilith to say no. Not that she wants to anyway:

It's the best chance to get Scar to spend time with Alice.

Johnny Vanderbilt wanted to take Alice back to his city after Scar went to prison. Knowing how Scar felt about Damian, Lilith chose to help Sebastian and took Alice to hide on a private island Sebastian got under Granny's maiden name. At least this way Alice gets to grow up with her father. The plan worked well at first.

Sebastian narrows his work days to 2 in the office, moving most of his work online and spending all five days on the island with them. For quite a long time Alice thought Lilith was her mom, and Lilith didn't put in a real effort to correct her - you don't tell a kid that the only close person who takes care of their life is not their mom, especially when the real mom wasn't there to fill the hole.

But later when Alice started to understand things, Sebastian started to talk about "Alice's mom" to Lilith for Alice to hear here and there. Soon the concept that Lilith wasn't Alice's mom became more acceptable to Alice, until finally, she asked about it herself. It wasn't easy, but it was as soft as that hit can get. Alice cried at first, confused about the absence of her mom, but she accepted it rather well under one condition:

Lilith was to take her to find her real mom.

Sebastian didn't like that idea, nor did he like that line of questioning. Lilith didn't know whether it was because he didn't want to bring the concept of "prison" into Alice's life, or because he knew he would lose Alice if Scar ever found out.

wished it wouldn't be the latter, but she didn't dare to risk it. Scar was, is, and will remain her priority if Lilith ever

against Sebastian, and that was when Johnny Vanderbilt got in

Alice none-stop, and Sebastian helped

very soon after that transferring her into a health facility he basically purchased for her, to provide a more comfortable environment. He tried to visit once, and never pushed Scar on that after she

what convinced Lilith to have a try with

days that

the

to Scar. Vanderbilt hired a whole team evaluating Scar's physical, and especially mental condition. To shorten the technical and scientific stuff: Scar can't take

the decision to keep the truth

and evaluate for Scar, none of them saw the miracle

all her heart and somehow healed a bit just

never asked to look for her real mom

found what they were looking for in each other, without knowing the bond between

were happy

nowhere near easy. As much as Alice reduced the frequency