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.

and

it before I did. He thought he could threaten/lure me with my dream — the first script I ever wrote. He didn’t evaluate

have

he didn’t help me when brought that to him, and that’s why

with MY dream, so why not start there? Prove him wrong by making

I know just the

of my phone, I type

Adrian Dunn: [A movie from Mr.

into my inbox after I sent that message. Only one new message is lying there.

to even care. Even to ask for my help,

did she

new message

[Coming home?]

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014 Mr Knight Ex

I didn’t have Aurora to turn to, but just died in some corner that no

two words, suddenly having

divorce papers seriously, or

a house be called a home if the couple sharing it is no longer married? After that ugly fallout, after I saw clearly the true faces of these

Are you coming home?

“come to my senses” that they weren’t being horrible to me by demanding my blood for Ava when they treated me like shit, but it was actually my fault that