096 Deadly Trap

Scarlett’s POV

Bumping into Sebastian was a surprise. I couldn’t imagine anything would be able to pull him away from Ava, especially when she is really hurt this time. He looked like he had something to say, but in the end, he seemed to have changed his mind to a meaningless question.

I don’t know how to answer, and frankly speaking, I don’t think he was waiting for a legit answer.

When did he lose me? The past months where he made Ava’s hospital his one and only home? The true love’s kiss he shared with his beloved princess? All the neglection over the years, the mocking and cold snorts? Or our wedding night he spent with Ava?

Or maybe, he already lost me the second day he saved me, when he took the princess as the little dragon he saved.

I knew the marriage was dead way before this. It died in one of those long, lonely nights when I sat in our bed, imagining my husband being on another woman’s bed. I just thought maybe I could hang on for

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hurt the most,

was the slight glimpse of hope that “if he could fall for me once, then he would again” that dragged me on the path of thorns through all these years. Every time it hurt, every time I wanted to

deadly trap hope can

hurting when I stopped hoping. I no longer want anything from him, and now he can’t hurt me.

to find me right out of the doctor’s office, “I was- are you okay? You look like you

ghost of a horrible

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to make sure the baby is okay. Did the doctor tell anyone? Granny? Sebastian?! I saw him

down, your secret is safe,” Adrian grabs my shoulders, and his firm hands soothe me, “the doctor didn’t tell anyone, and I have explained the situation to him. No one can get to your medical record, not even if the Fullers

the baby. I don’t think Sebastian would be cold enough to harm a baby, but I don’t want to bet -on his choice between

much to

bed?” Adrian says with a light tone, but I see the hidden anger in his eyes. He understands my fear, and he is angry at them on my behalf, “I have got something to

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