Chapter 50

050 Granny’s Blessing

Scarlett’s POV

“Your eyes are no longer following him around, and when they land on him, there is only a deep running sorrow in there. The worst finally happened…” Granny lets out a long sigh, “I didn’t want you to go through with the wedding because I didn’t want. this for you, my poor poor child, I didn’t want you to get hurt so badly that the precious light in your eyes would dim…I guess in the end, I still failed to protect you.”

“Granny…!” I murmur in shock. I never knew! Granny does see through everything, and to think we thought we were successful in tricking her.

“He hurt you bad this time, didn’t he?” Granny asks me coldly, this time the coldness is directed at Sebastian.

Somehow that warms me up more than anything.

She is Sebastian’s family first, and she won’t even be mine if I didn’t blackmail her grandson. Yet when things went wrong, she took my side without even a question. No family has ever done that for me.

But Sebastian’s and my issue is not that simple. There isn’t a clear right or wrong. He wanted Ava, I wanted him, he hurt me for Ava, and now I don’t want him don’t think he did anything horrible, but I can’t go back either.

once–l–thought fearless love in me burned out. That’s

anymore. I

you?” Granny suddenly asks. She didn’t even need my answer when I was still hesitating on what to say. She got everything from a

you object to him and Ava?” I divert the topic, feeling much lighter now the truth is out with Granny, “She loves

Sebastian and Ava coldly, who are talking happily together downstairs, “She WANTS him, sure. He thinks of that as love, but that’s not what makes one happy. Not like

more love in him than I ever had. I only found little Jove in the dark world I lived in, and I

he found

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and that’s why I admire him.

what our story is. Just a pure

girl for who she is, don’t you?” Granny suddenly says. I hesitate to times, too many, to “my parents“,

our classmates, to Sebastian.

usual. Sometimes I feel like maybe Ava should not be considered as a bad person, if

you can, being her victim.” Granny continues her monologue, “There was this day when I visited your parents‘. You two got into a fight and she cried, getting the adults over. Maybe you don’t remember, you were only around six or seven. I guess I was there one step faster than she estimated, and I saw her kick you before pinching herself on the wrist, and then burst into tears when she had a cold look that’s too sophisticated for that young

remember. Similar things

was the calm look on your face as if her actions were normal to you,” Granny shakes her head, “It’s trivia to anyone, but when I see that same sophisticated

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