She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 21

021 Innocent Ava

Sebastian’s POV

I have never seen Scar so happy with her laughter reaching her eyes….when she left with her friends.

She never laughs with me, she just smiles at me- she used to smile at me, but not anymore. Not for months. But even before when she did, it was different from the laugh she had with her friends. Her smile at me was always timid and restrained, like a puppy scared of being hurt, but also desperately flatters people for food.

She wasn’t happy with me. I made sure of that.

I thought I was just “not loving” her. I didn’t. I don’t! And because of that, I never cared if I was hurting her. She forced my hand, and I used that to justify everything.

The past three days were really rough for me.

I couldn’t stop thinking about Scar’s accusation, of how horribly we have been treating her. I felt sick of myself every time I think of the phrase “blood vessel“. I kept searching in my memory for clues to justify my actions. Maybe she deserved it, maybe she brought that to herself, maybe things didn’t have to be that

way.

I couldn’t find any.

she has never harmed Ava on purpose. Even the “paper cut accident” was just

able to justify that, I forgot how. At first, we understood. She was the healthy one, so of course she was jealous of Ava when Ava was the fragile baby doll that required constant attention. After a while, we got tired

she never got what she deserved to have in the first place. We just decided by ourselves that she should grow

Now she did.

our attention. I

into an identical shirt, but today when I forced her to look at me, she didn’t even see

no longer

that! But why does it sting so much, when all she did was to stop paying her attention to me? Is this how she feels this whole

his gang who are having a hard time not laughing at him. They quickly clear the space for us. I look at him rubbing his shoulder with a painful look, wondering if he would be bothered too if he was there

mean to Scar?”

furrows his eyebrows, having a

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question I didn’t know I would ever

a good brother to Ava,” I try to explain, “so why do YOU hate Scar so

reason. Scar blackmailed me. But she never did anything to

Gabriel exclaims as if

know, not linked

would an adopted orphan hate the family that

dare not follow that string of