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-”

smile bitterly, “you told

to visit Granny for the first time as Sebastian’s fiancee,

this. It’s better for you to drop it, now. I won’t bless his marriage with a Fuller, and

Granny had some feud with “the Fullers“. Now I know. Granny just threw

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grandson right after.

only got him to label me with Jealousy. I thought even if he wouldn’t

for Ava, for Granny, for Gabriel and for a lot more. Just

I forced his hand five years ago? Because I have been “Ava’s bully” in Ava’s stories? Or because, I was never

I just know

looking at me with sorrowful eyes,

I blame how Ava turned out on

I

Sebastian to marry into the Fullers. I was wrong, too.

well, coming from the

I try to put on a joking tone, “I AM

smiling. She just looks at me with pitiful

for what I wanted, and

I knew Sebastian loved someone else. A marriage not based on love never turns

budged not because Sebastian insisted on marrying you, but because I saw real

“They aren’t there anymore.”

at Granny in shock, my eyes wide

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