She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

249 Truth Hurts The Most

"I told you, I'm not after your money nor your company," Scar says calmly, dropping the card on the table.

"Then what are you after? Why are you here with a card to help me from going bankrupt?" Letting the card bouncing off the table, Sebastian grabs her wrist instead before she could pull back. He leans in so close that she could smell his cologne, his head bent lower to nail her eyes as his whisper stiffens her body: "...why do you care at all... Mrs...Knight?" "I'm not--!" Scar tries to swing his hand off, only to stop in the middle of her outburst, glaring at him like a puffed balloonfish.

Sebastian curves his lips.

"You are not Mrs. Knight? I know."

Scar won't answer.

"You hate me, don't you?" Sebastian announces. The pain in his voice hidden well. "You hate me so much that you don't want anything to do with me, even if I'm handing you my everything. Why won't you say it out loud?" Scar lowers her eyelids to prevent the man from seeing through her, but he continues--

after what happened five years ago. She would come back and smash her handbag in my face. She would claw me and bite me before spatting on my dead body and leaves like the

closes her eyes. The man knows her too well. He saw through

the time comes, because you think that would hurt her the most. Is that not your plan?" Scar snorts lightly, her voice cold enough to freeze air. With a blunt swing, she snaps her wrist out of the man's

my plan, so what?! Using your hand is just the cheery on top, it won't hurt my plan in any way! You can go ahead and get back to her, and go to hell with her when I send her there! You

bother? It's his

hurt me?

atel

to hide your hatred, as much as you want to trick me into thinking that you are still into me, as much

being close to me."

wide. She didn't notice any of that. She did try to keep a calm mask with him. It never occurred to her how much

much that he grips his fist just so he can force out his words: "Truth hurts the most, Scar. You can hurt me easily, without you doing anything." "Truth hurts only when you care about it," Scar lets out a cold laugh, "I don't see

He gazes at the woman who was once the best person he has ever known saying the cruelest words in the world. He does care, and