136 Lie To Me

Sebastian’s POV

I was pleasantly surprised that Scar would initiate a talk, only to realize — Scar wants something from me.

She is a free spirit, the opposite of Ava. She says what she thinks, and she does what her heart tells her to. Always. But not when she wants something. She turns into a different person, a tame girl who tries her best to behave, to flatter, to restrain.

I used to scorn at that. I felt like she was always asking for something when Ava never asked for things. On top of that, she does it in a timid, almost scared way and I didn’t like it.

ask all my friends but me about what I might like to get me “the right” gift, and ask me if I liked the gift when she gave it to me. If

didn’t like Scar’s “hidden conditions” for the gifts, so I hated it when she gave me gifts. I felt like there were always traps behind it. I never thought about how hard it was

I want

I was so blind.

I indulged Ava to have that kind of confidence, when I hated Scar for being afraid of rejections because I have given her too many of them. Scar’s “wishes” were simple demands that I should have provided as her husband even without her asking! She only asked because I failed her in the first place, and she was

I proved her right,

everything if she could make a requirement of me again. But I know she wouldn’t take that kind of risk with

she would rather put on a fake mask, and try awkwardly to steal, to trick, to lie, than to just ask me for

pushes her drink to me. Realizing she wanted me drunk for her plan, I could barely maintain

is the woman who used to stay up with me in a bar when I wanted to drink my struggle

reject her now, but her doing it in a

It was like I was put under a spell for so many years, or else why couldn’t I appreciate the wife that

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