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.

out about this misunderstanding five years

Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising

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

confused, angry,

was nothing like that. But we were both in front of him for a decade after his “mistake“, yet he never even noticed that

lying, then he was

guess it should be touching, that he 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, not happiness. The boy I loved for ten years, loved another horrible

saw me for who I was,

either.

+25 BONUS

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

touched, at that time. And that one shred.

know what else to do. If I went to him to tell him “the truth“, he would hate me even more and deem that a desperate lie. But

knew, and that was why she dared

still took the bet. I bet 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,

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