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.

confused, angry,

and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were both in front of him for a decade after his “mistake“, yet he never even noticed that what he said that

wasn’t lying,

“his feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved

was, and he never saw Ava for who

either.

+25 BONUS

why when Sebastian pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no.

I guess somewhere deep down, I WAS touched, at that time. And that one shred.

boy for what I have wanted, what he said HE wanted, for the first time. I didn’t know what else to do. If I went to him to tell him “the truth“, he would hate me even more and deem that a desperate lie. But if I don’t, then I will have to watch him being together with Ava for

was why she dared to let

for so long just because of that one twilight he spent with me,

I should have known.

friends with Ava even though she

Not me.

still can’t see me with

want a marriage, not without

Fool me once.