She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

227 Z, X, and V

"The gentleman on the second floor".

Sebastian's plate doesn't even have a number, but just one letter - Z.

It's unlikely that he could see and spot Ava from that huge window on the second floor, but Ava feels like Sebastian glanced at her coldly when he raised his plate just now. Wronged tears fill Ava's eyes.

She should have been up there. She was supposed to be the queen of the Knights, and she got her title fair and square. But now that man put all his sweet words and promises behind his head, and looks at her with only coldness.

[Sebastian, No.86 is me,] Ava types in her phone, but hesitates when her finger hovers over "send".

One word after another, Ava deletes the message, and sends [Sebastian, I'm at an auction today] instead.

No reply.

Holding the phone, Ava looks up at Sebastian. The man sits there with a straight face, his eye never even dart to the table where his phone blinks.

Biting her lips, Ava holds her phone to her ear after dialing Sebastian's number. Anger rushing from her waist all the way to her head, shouting at her to demand an answer from the guy who should play her husband without considering possible consequences. The dialing tone doesn't even stop before the host hammers down yet again: "110,000 dollars from Mr. X!"

smile all the way to the middle window on the second floor. Its curtain just stops moving, revealing Scar sitting on the red velvet armchair like a

masked man Scar relies on. The next second Ava tastes blood on her tongue, but jealousy burns too hard that she does not even feel the bite on her

that ring?

twice!" The

the man staring at

Jack Fuller glances at her with a painfully slow move, and right before Ava

The host points over with his hammer, "No.

Ava. Even at such a distance, Ava feels the cold glare, and instantly realizes - Scar does not care about the ring. She bade only because Ava

the back of

Sear with her nails carving the hardwood under her butt as if she's grabbing onto the last

moves slowly, the plate with the scarlet "X" rising up like the

shouts again. Every of his shouts turns the audience altogether, and this time to the window on the

sides, Johnny Vanderbilt's

here! He really came!" Ava

staring at the

The man that has been a throne his whole life. They grew up in the same neighborhood, they went to the same school, and they fell in fove with the same woman, but that's where their fate took different paths: scared off

to give a bow to Scar. Scar rolls her eyes and looks away, and the man

thought he could at least wait to