She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 49

049 Happiest Man On Earth

Scarlett’s POV

I can’t answer Granny. I just stand there, watch Sebastian and Ava talk, laugh…hug. Granny, too. Quietly with no surprise. If Granny can accept Ava coming to her birthday, and showing her intimacy with Sebastian in public like this, then why would she even ask me that question?

Ava IS the problem.

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“Is it because of Ava?” Granny suddenly asks, turning to face me..

I pull my eyes back from the long, quiet, soulful hug Sebastian is sharing with her. He said he had the divorce papers ready. I guess I no longer have the right to judge. But it doesn’t mean the image is not stinging.

I SHOULD be mad, when he pulls her into his arms like she is his most treasured precious, at a party he asked me to attend to “play the loving couple” one last time.

But I’m not even mad. I just feel sad. A deep blue, overwhelming cloud of sadness. flooded my world. At this moment, I do feel like the evil villain in a love story that separated a poor, loving couple, and yet their love is so strong and unstoppable that when they finally make it, they don’t even laugh, or kiss, or do any other dramatic expressions.

They just hug, tightly, as if their worlds are complete by each other.

Who could break such love? I surely can’t.

“No, Ava was never the problem,” I mumble to Granny, or maybe to myself, “It’s me. I don’t want to go on anymore.”

Granny sighs, “Scar, I-”

I smile bitterly,

Granny for the first time as Sebastian’s fiancee, Granny warned me to not go

you to drop it, now. I won’t bless his marriage with

I know. Granny just threw Ava out of her house, only to have

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grandson right after.

that love is based on lies. I tried to expose her lies, and I only got him to label me

has room for Ava, for Granny, for Gabriel and for a lot more.

I forced his hand five years ago? Because I have been “Ava’s bully” in Ava’s stories? Or because, I was never a real Fuller, and there never was a chance for me to be accepted as

know. I just know I failed,

to say…” Granny sighs, looking

how Ava turned out

I

I didn’t want Sebastian to marry into the Fullers.

out well, coming from the same

try to put on a joking

She just looks at me with pitiful eyes. I

what I wanted, and I lost.

loved someone else. A marriage not

because Sebastian insisted on marrying you, but because

“They aren’t there anymore.”

up at Granny in shock,