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?”

For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that.

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

sky. I maintain my smile as I count

Ava before the

reaches into the darkness in the corner where the sun can’t shine on, Sebastian lets out a resighed laugh, “the harm is done, and the truth so long ago doesn’t

of my first love ends here, but, for what it’s worth, it has an

eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his arm as he deepens the

me go. In tears, I close my eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so why not? This is the only kiss shared between us without hatred in his eyes and jealousy

mine.

girl who was saved ten years ago deserves this kiss, and so

the girl, or maybe you are. It doesn’t matter anymore because that’s not why I proposed to Ava!” When he finally finishes that long kiss, he blurts like a machine gun as I pant for air, “l protected her for that, yes! I took care

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161 A Second

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