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.

chest, and

thought he could threaten/lure me with my dream — the first script I ever wrote. He didn’t evaluate its weight on my heart right

have done

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

so why not start there? Prove him wrong by making

I know just the

out of my phone,

Mr. Knight’s

inbox after I sent that message. Only one

to even care. Even to ask for my

did she

message belongs to

[Coming home?]

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014 Mr Knight Ex

three days ago. If I didn’t have Aurora to turn to, but just died in some corner that no one knows, he wouldn’t even know until the cops

at those two words, suddenly having such an

seriously, or he doesn’t understand

couple sharing it is no longer married? After that ugly fallout, after I saw clearly the true faces of these so–called “family“, after he snatched the

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 I would want to be