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.

out about this misunderstanding five years

a recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her,

he wanted to do was to protect the little girl he saved from the woods that day, because she

confused, angry, panicking. Everything but

she was brave, and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was

he wasn’t lying, then he was

but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved for ten years, loved another

who I was, and he never

either.

+25 BONUS

that was why when Sebastian pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see

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

do. If I went

knew, and that was why she dared to let me

if he could love a vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that

I should have known.

it’s no longer a trick. If he stayed friends with Ava even though she was nothing that he “loved“, then it’s Ava

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