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.

found out about this misunderstanding five years ago.

three scared words to her, promising that he would have no

the woods that day,

shocked, confused, angry, panicking. Everything

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

wasn’t lying,

ignored all Ava’s faults and disadvantages because of “his feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony,

he never saw me for who I was, and he never saw

either.

+25 BONUS

said no. She thought he would see through her if she got too close. He

somewhere deep down, I WAS touched, at that time. And that one shred. of bittersweetness, became my biggest

I didn’t know what else to do. If I went to him

knew, and that was why

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

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 who he loved,