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

words to her, promising that he would have

the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little

angry, panicking. Everything but

He said he cared about that little girl because she was brave, and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like

wasn’t lying, then

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

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

either.

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pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through

I WAS touched, at that

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 if I don’t, then I will have to watch

that was why she dared to

vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent

I should have known.

Ava even though she was nothing that he

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