She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 21

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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.

the “paper cut accident” was just an accident. She wanted everyone’s attention, and

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

We just decided by

Now she did.

longer wants our

into an identical shirt, but today when I forced her

no longer

why does it sting so much, when all she did was to stop paying

us. I look at him rubbing his shoulder with a painful look, wondering if he would be bothered too if

you so mean to Scar?” I

having a hard time understanding my

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a question I didn’t know I

Ava,” I try to explain, “so why

never

She hates us!” Gabriel exclaims as if I missed something

her that she was adopted! You know, not linked by blood. Bound

hate the family that put a roof over her head…if she wasn’t

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