She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

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.

only found out about this misunderstanding five years ago.

recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his wife in

he saved from the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch

confused, angry, panicking.

and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were both in front of him for a decade after his “mistake“, yet he never even noticed that what he said that he loved, was

he wasn’t lying, then

and disadvantages because of “his feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved for ten years, loved another horrible girl because

who I was, and he never saw Ava for who she

either.

+25 BONUS

said no. She thought he would see through

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

know what else to do.

was why she dared to let

could love a vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent with me, then

I should have known.

friends with Ava even though she was nothing