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 magically,

dream — the first script I ever wrote. He didn’t evaluate its weight on

have

I could make it. He never had faith in me, and that’s why he didn’t help me when brought

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

I know just

my phone, I type before hitting

Mr. Knight’s ex–wife. Want it?

after I sent that message. Only one

for my help, Ava would talk to me

didn’t call either, nor did she

message

[Coming home?]

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014 Mr Knight Ex

to turn to, but just died in some corner that no one knows, he wouldn’t even know until the cops find me

words, suddenly having

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

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

Are you coming home?

what? To give him love in exchange for his hatred? To flatter him after his day of 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 Ava when they treated me like shit, but it