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.

in my chest, and magically, the pain dulls

He 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 only because I have long

shouldn’t have done

when brought that to him, and that’s

can buy my freedom with MY dream, so why not start there? Prove him wrong by

I know

out of my phone, I type

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

I sent that message. Only one new message is lying there. I wouldn’t

care. Even to ask for my

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

new message belongs to

[Coming home?]

1/2

014 Mr Knight Ex

two words. From three days ago. If I didn’t have Aurora to turn to, but just died in some corner that no one knows, he

at those two words, suddenly having such

didn’t take the divorce papers seriously, or he

married? After that ugly fallout, after I saw clearly the true faces of these so–called “family“, after he snatched the divorce

Are you coming home?

misunderstanding, and “come to my senses” that they weren’t being horrible to me by demanding my blood for Ava when they treated me like shit,