She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 55

055 The Perfect Crime

Scarlett’s POV

I would have given everything for such a speech from him, five years ago.

Hell. I did give everything, when I asked for exactly what he is offering me today. If only he had been less cruel to me anywhere in the past five years; if only he believed Granny and did not let his emotion cloud his judgment. But life has no “if only“. I’m not there anymore. I’m not excited, or happy. I’m just tired.

I just want to live my own life without them keep on hurting me.

I can’t go back, not for Granny’s wish, not for my coming baby, not for a Sebastian who still doesn’t see me.

He still doesn’t know that it was me who he saved in the woods, not Ava.

I only found out about this misunderstanding five years ago. When Ava came

bragging to me with a recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his wife in this lifetime.

In the video, Sebastian looked into Ava’s eyes, and said that all he wanted to do was to protect the little girl he saved from the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch of rebellion that he had ever seen. His speech was touching, but I wasn’t happy.

was shocked, confused, angry, panicking. Everything but

rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were both in front of

he wasn’t lying, then

Ava’s faults and disadvantages because of “his feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy

for who I was, and he never saw

either.

+25 BONUS

that was why when Sebastian pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through her if she got too close. He

touched, at that time. And that one shred. of bittersweetness,

to do. If I went to him to tell him “the truth“, he would hate

and that was why she dared to let me

love a vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent

I should have known.

could be tricked for so long, then it’s no longer a trick. If he stayed friends with Ava even though she was nothing that he “loved“, then it’s Ava who he loved, not

Not me.

sorry for what he did, he still can’t see me with basic fairness. He can’t see me over Ava’s horrible lies about me and see that I have the qualities he claimed to

marriage,

Fool me once.