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.

this misunderstanding five years

to me with a recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but

video, 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

confused, angry,

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 that. But we were both in front of him for a

wasn’t lying, then

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

me for who I was,

either.

+25 BONUS

was why when Sebastian pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through her if she got

that time.

else to do. If I went to him to tell him “the truth“, he would hate me even more and

knew, and that was why she dared to let

vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent with me, then maybe, MAYBE, I had a chance at doing that

I should have known.

with Ava even though she was nothing that he “loved“, then it’s Ava who he loved, not the perfect