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.

misunderstanding five years ago.

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

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

confused, angry, panicking. Everything but

she was brave, 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

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 horrible girl because he

who I was, and he never saw Ava

either.

+25 BONUS

first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through her if she

I WAS touched, at that time. And that one shred. of bittersweetness, became my

good in all this ball of lies, made me finally gather courage, to ask the boy for what I have wanted, what he said HE wanted, for the first time. I didn’t know what else to do. If I went to him to tell him “the truth“, he would hate me even more

why she dared to let me

vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one

I should have known.

even though