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

to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his wife in this

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,

confused, angry, panicking.

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

lying, then

feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved

was, and he never saw Ava for

either.

+25 BONUS

Sebastian pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no.

deep down, I WAS touched, at that

I didn’t know what else to do.

knew, and that was why she dared

as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he

I should have known.

Ava even though she was nothing that he “loved“, then it’s Ava who he

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