She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

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Sebastian’s POV

It’s not the first time that I have had this doubt.

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Scar is a lot like the girl I saved…more than Ave. Not her look, her spirit. I guess I saw that even before she brought up the divorce. I dodged her exactly because I couldn’t accept myself looking for similarities between her and the girl I saved when she was Ava’s bully.

I stare into her eyes, and I can’t see a shred of guilt for lying.

Disappointment overwhelms me.

“She…she what?” I frown, blinking to reboot my brain. Ava showed a video of my proposal??? I didn’t even know I was going to propose that day, and Ava definitely didn’t take a video.

It’s ridiculous how everyone thinks I’m in love with Ava when of all women, I have never even dated her.

Scar’s script sets up so romantically and ideally, but the truth is, Ava and I have been in the same strings of schools, but never at the same time. Even Scar, the first impression I have of her that I can remember was when I visited Ava when they both entered high school when I was already graduating from college

seen Ava as a woman before that. She was just a kid, a little sister that I sworn to protect. She said she wasn’t happy at home, and I tried to make her time a bit

can trust now. But I do remember seeing Scar here and there, usually like the character in the scene just now, snooping around speakily – thinking that she did that sneakily. Now to think about it, those were the times when

was.

peeking as evil anymore. I didn’t understand that

now…

I ask Scar, only to realize how little I know about her, “I never asked but… why were you

I barely

to her before she went into high school, nor

she demanded my hand in marriage. I was so against that idea, taking that

at me calmly, and now I hear how ridiculous I

“I’m sorry-”

pulling her wrist out of my grip, “What are you

if that’s more of a bother to

now,” James Deep comes up to my help. “He seems to have high demand on the quality, and I

the audience to love our male lead, then you

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seem to realize that he is talking about us as he continues: “Or the story won’t work. Work it