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.

this misunderstanding

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

little girl he saved from the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a

shocked, confused, angry, panicking.

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

lying, then he

what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness.

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

either.

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

down, I WAS touched, at that time. And that one

what else to do. If I went to him to tell

that was why she

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.

Ava even though she was nothing that he “loved“,

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