She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 8

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Scarlett’s POV

Sitting on the cold floor, I realize I made my judgment too early.

I thought my life used to be a living hell. How wrong was I. Though everyone treated me horribly, never did they lay a finger on me.ter all, I was the precious blood vessel for the fragile Ava. They couldn’t afford to lose me.

But not anymore.

I palm my face, looking up slowly at the man I once called father, only to realize the coldness in his eyes: I’m still the blood vessel, just not “precious” anymore. I’m now a nice to have.

After all, Ava is all but healed now.

They won’t toss me away because I might still have value What do they have to lose if I don’t get my chance of a normal life?

For that slight “might“, I can’t have my freedom. I’m not allowed to leave the city and have my own They don’t care if my heart would be broken a million times every day here, seeing Sebastian with They don’t care that I might also need love, from somewhere, anywhere

And they can afford to physically hurt me now.

I dart my disbelieving eyes to “Mom“, to the woman that I once thought might have spared just a little love in her heart for me even though most of it is reserved for her beloved real daughter

She won’t look at me. She just covers her face with her palm and sobs, just like every time when Jack forced me to give blood to Ava to the point that I would faint

“Mom, please, answer me.”

not lure me back. Say that there is a shred of love in your heart for me, that even though you need my blood for your

lie to me Like

talking to her Jack Fuller charges

my surprise,

towers over Jack’s beer belly, “Whatever this is

he will stand up

What a mistake.

like this? Can’t get to me, Jack shouts at me through Sebastian, “Don’t you have no shame, you ungrateful brat! She loves you and

what I used to believe I let out a laugh, mocking the naive, stupid

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horrified cry, and Jack dashes over

out for me with detest in

We don’t have a home anymore, Sebastian. I built one for us, and you broke

home now. I ner had one. And today, I lost the last person in the family I thought that had shed love on me, no

condescending offer, like the knight in his shining armor saving a damsel in

the damsel he wanted to

he became best friends with Ava, and started looking at me with

just another lie I have been

gets impatient the next

the door, and I watch