She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 25

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Scarlett’s POV

“I was mad at you for loving him when he was a total jerk to you, but that’s not the main reason why! couldn’t talk to you in all these years.” Lilith starts with a nervous look.

I did not see that coming. I really thought that was the reason.

“….I know a secret, sort of, of Sebastian’s, I didn’t want to tell you because it would only hurt you, but i don’t know how to face you when I know I’m keeping such a secret from you, so…”

Her blurt is baffling but I sort out a lead, somewhat-

“Okay, so what’s this big secret?”

Taking a deep breath, Lilith looks like she is preparing herself for her death sentence before she say slowly:–

“May 21st, five years ago, do you…remember?”

—

to me and said “he agrees to my deal for his hand. I thought

stupid when that memory pops up in my mind. I knew he didn’t love me, I knew he

brand of humiliation on

welling up in my eyes. I have promised myself

need to

Aurora exchange a worried

starts, “It’s doesn’t matter now, not

care about him or his secret. I just want to know why I lost

lost shape when the word “lost”

touch that day, and it all comes out at my first poke. It’s like I was back to the worst day of my life, the one I lied to myself saying that I was

My wedding day.

me with disappointment in her eyes; the day when the few quests that came all looked at me with judgy eyes; the day, when Sebastian left me on our way back home to the airport, chasing Ava all the way

her arms, hugging me tight as I cry out loud, the first time in so long. Aurora joins us and that just makes me

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talk between the gaps of my sobbing, “1-1 broke them

the truth that…!”

My poor baby Scar, I know!” Lilith cries with me. “But that’s exactly the thing! You didn’t break

too shocking that I even

was the constable of the Villa area

know Lilith’s brother is a policeman, not