She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

142 The Venderbilt’s Heir

Scarlett’s POV

I have never seen him sad like this. Before when I have a fight with him for Ava, he usually just snorts coldly, or brushes it off. Never did he care so much that his whole voice was spilling out pain.

His pain stings me.

“Yes, very!” I say in a vicious tone, glaring back at him, “I’m sorry if you said that in exchange for a dead marriage, but you shouldn’t have done it if you think it’s not worth it!”

“I didn’t say that,” Sebastian sighs, his voice tired and low, “I know I need to keep a distance from her, I just didn’t want to do it in a cruel way…”

“I told you I stayed for blood, and I told you I tore the divorce papers just to torture your precious,” I feel my blood boiling in a cold fire, “I don’t care if you stay her knight in shining armor, just don’t come and ask me to join you! If you are putting her above every and any of your things, that’s your choice!”

Not mine, and certainly not my baby’s!

For a moment I really thought I could trust him with our baby. I guess I was too naive.

He pushes a hand on the wall by my ear, his hand grabbing me is trembling in pain and restraint. He looks into my eyes as if desperately looking for the perfect wife he knew I was.

I was. I’m not anymore.

first in our standoff, sighing,

has so much to say, but in the end, he just puts my phone in my hand and leaves, a sullen and disappointed look on his face. I don’t need to

asks, sticking his

answer, only to realize my grumping tone,

this shithole!”

+25 BONUS

eyebrows, “What about the necklace? You don’t want

Fuller won’t let me have it, unless I blow everything up. If he wanted to destroy it, he would have years ago.

“Daddy is home!”

my attention. She was crying on the sofa with her friends around her. Sebastian is not by her side. I look down, and Ava is

planning to get me in

I tell Lucas as I turn and head downstairs instead. Even if Ava tells on me, she has no evidence that I

throws herself into Jack Fuller. Even before she could fully turn around she points in my direction and cries, “Daddy,

he left, after that ugly talk. Ava pauses at Sebastian’s move, so shocked that the pitiful mask she puts on

into the room.

guy who saved Lilith at Granny’s

is staring at

all sort of freeze by the gate. Gabriel laughs at himself for a second, realizing the awkward moment, and grins at Sebastian: “Ohh, let me introduce you! Damian, this is Sebastian Knight, CEO of the Z House, and Sebastian, this is Damian Vanderbilt,