She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 14

014 Mr. Knight’s Ex

Scarlett’s POV

I want to sit down right there on the staircase and let the overwhelming emptiness gulp me, but I dare not. I know if I let it, then I will stay beaten. I will lose the strength I’m pretending to have and collapse

I thought I could let go of Sebastian. Ever since I walked into their kiss three months ago, I have been preparing for this day. I did it.

It just hurts more than I expected.

Closing my eyes, I try to chase Sebastian out of my head. I just need something, anything, to take up the hole left in my heart now that I carved him out.

Something I could value. Something for myself. I lived my life around him, but I used to have a life of my own. I used to have friends to laugh and cry with, used to be competitive just like any student. I used to have a dream.

Inave it

I was going to be a writer, before up and stayed home to build a family,

Richard Hanson.

Jack Fuller’s mean face when he mentioned that name pops into my mind, like he was throwing a bone to a pitiful dog.

burns in my chest, and magically, the pain dulls at

script I ever wrote. He didn’t evaluate its

shouldn’t have

in me, and that’s why he didn’t help me when brought that to him, and that’s why he never mentioned it again

my freedom with MY dream, so why not start

know just the

phone, I type before hitting

Adrian Dunn: [A movie from Mr. Knight’s ex–wife.

that message. Only one new message is lying there.

to ask for my help, Ava would talk to

didn’t call either, nor did she reach out in

one new message belongs to

[Coming home?]

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014 Mr Knight Ex

two words. From three days ago. If I didn’t have Aurora to turn to, but just died in

at those two words, suddenly having such an

didn’t take the divorce papers seriously, or he doesn’t understand what a divorce

clearly the true faces

Are you coming home?

being Ava’s loyal knight? To “clear” the misunderstanding, and “come to my senses” that they weren’t being horrible to me by demanding my blood for