She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

161 A Second Chance

Scarlett’s POV

I stop, but I don’t know how to turn around.

For a long moment I pause there, and for a long moment, he waits patiently behind me.

How great it would be, if he had asked me this question at ANY POINT in our marriage? If he had doubted Ava just a little bit in the long time window when I kept hope, I would have jumped to tell him the truth. If I had even a shred of confidence that he would have belleved me, I would have.

But now…

I turn around, only to find him standing on the green grass when I’m already off on the cold blacktop. A hard line between us, like the five years that we can leap over. He looks at me with too complicated a look that I can’t quite read. In his eyes are hope, struggle, hesitation, and…fear.

Fear of what? Of me being the girl he saved? Or not?

“The question is…” I take a deep breath just so I can look into his eyes, “Do you WANT me to be?”

been a mean girl but you could never see

how such a strong love could only come out of a glance of one day, but if it was…then

hope in his eyes dims together with the sky. I maintain my smile as I count the seconds, giving myself

if you choose me over Ava before the sun goes down, then I will

last shred of sunlight pulls our shadows so long that it reaches into the darkness in the corner where the

the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for what

I flinch, but

let me go. In tears, I close my eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so why not?

mine.

this kiss, and so

kiss, he blurts like a machine gun as I pant for air, “l protected her for that, yes! I took care of her for that, because I saw the desperation in her eyes for her own home that day, and I wanted to keep her eyes clean as how I found them. I loved

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161 A Second

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