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!"

all the way to the middle window on the second floor. Its curtain just stops moving, revealing Scar sitting

X? Ava frowns, realizing the seat belongs to "Silco", the masked man Scar relies on. The next second Ava tastes blood on

ring? She doesn't

twice!" The host

up at Sebastian, only to see the man staring

painfully slow move, and right before Ava burst into

host points over with his hammer, "No. 86

Scar saw her. The cold ice queen lands her indifferent eyes right on Ava. Even at such a distance, Ava feels the cold glare, and instantly realizes - Scar does not care about the

the back of her

onto the last chance with Sebastian. The ring belongs to her! Sebastian

"X" rising up like the sentencing on Ava's life. But

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

sides, Johnny Vanderbilt's famous face

He really came!" Ava exclaims,

is staring

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 by Anna's special condition, that man dumped her, left her with a broken heart when he took

hat to his chest to give a bow to Scar. Scar rolls her eyes and looks away, and the man just smiles as he puts his hat

Jack Fuller mumbles, "I thought he could at