She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 25

025 The Iron Lady

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?”

—

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

day! I close my eyes, feeling so stupid when that memory pops up in my mind. I knew he didn’t love me, I knew he only agreed to that because of Ava, but mannnnn, I was elated. I thought

of humiliation on all my

the tears welling up in my eyes. I have promised myself to not cry for him again. I have to carve him out of my

need to

and Aurora exchange a worried

you don’t need to know,” Lilith starts, “It’s

don’t care about him or his secret. I just want

voice lost shape when the word “lost” left me, and I burst into

It’s like I was back to the worst day of my life, the one I lied to myself saying that I

My wedding day.

of my “family” showed up- they took Ava for a trip to Egypt to cheer her up; the day my best friend walked out on me with disappointment in her eyes; the day when the few quests that came all looked at me with judgy eyes; the day,

loud, the first time in so long. Aurora joins us and that just makes me cry even

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I did wrong, I know!” I pent, try to talk between the gaps of my sobbing, “1-1 broke them up and–and the whole world turned their back on

the truth that…!”

with me. “But that’s exactly the thing! You didn’t break them up! That’s

shocking that I even

Damon was the constable of the Villa area at that time, right?” Lilith

a