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.

about this misunderstanding five years ago. When Ava

saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his

Sebastian looked into Ava’s eyes, and said that all he wanted to do was to protect the little girl he saved from the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch of rebellion that

confused, angry, panicking. Everything but

WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were

he wasn’t lying, then he

faults and disadvantages because of “his feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd,

for who I was, and he never

either.

+25 BONUS

said no. She

WAS touched, at that

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

knew, and that was why she

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

I should have known.

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, not the perfect memory he thought he