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!"

following his passionate 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

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

man staring at

at her with a painfully slow move, and

over with his

up at Scar, and this time she is sure that Scar saw her. The cold ice queen lands her indifferent eyes right on Ava. Even at such a distance, Ava feels

grabs the back of

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

plate with the scarlet "X" rising up like the sentencing on Ava's

his shouts turns

curtain glides to the sides, Johnny Vanderbilt's famous face appears, with

came!" Ava exclaims,

is staring at 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 by Anna's special condition, that man dumped her, left her with a broken heart when he took her onto the

his lips, taking off his hat to his chest to give a bow to Scar. Scar rolls her eyes and looks away, and the man just

I thought," Jack Fuller mumbles, "I thought