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

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

have

didn’t think I could make it. He never had faith 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 until he desperately needed something

my freedom with MY dream, so why not start there? Prove him wrong by making it on

know just the

my phone, I type before

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

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

Fuller to even care. Even to ask for my help, Ava would talk to me

Mom didn’t call either, nor did she reach

message belongs to

[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 one knows, he wouldn’t even know until the

stare at those two words, suddenly having such an urge to

papers seriously,

home if the 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 divorce papers out of me just in case I would go back

Are you coming home?

his day of being Ava’s loyal knight? To “clear” the misunderstanding, and “come to my senses” that they weren’t being

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