142 The Venderbilt’s Heir

Scarlett’s POV

I have never seen him sad like this. Before when I have a fight with him for Ava, he usually just snorts coldly, or brushes it off. Never did he care so much that his whole voice was spilling out pain.

His pain stings me.

“Yes, very!” I say in a vicious tone, glaring back at him, “I’m sorry if you said that in exchange for a dead marriage, but you shouldn’t have done it if you think it’s not worth it!”

“I didn’t say that,” Sebastian sighs, his voice tired and low, “I know I need to keep a distance from her, I just didn’t want to do it in a cruel way…

“I told you I stayed for blood, and I told you I tore the divorce papers just to torture your precious,” I feel my blood boiling in a cold fire, “I don’t care if you stay her knight in shining armor, just don’t come and ask me to join you! If you are putting her above every and any of your things, that’s your choice!”

Not mine, and certainly not my baby’s!

For a moment I really thought I could trust him with our baby. I guess I was too naive.

grabbing me is trembling in pain and restraint. He looks into my eyes as if desperately looking for the perfect

I’m

right,” He lowers his eyes first in our standoff, sighing, “I will pay for what I have done in

and leaves, a sullen

you okay…?” Lucas asks, sticking his

answer, only to realize my grumping tone, “Pack your bags,

this shithole!

about

have it, unless I blow everything up. If he wanted to destroy it, he would have years ago. I’m fed up living with

“Daddy is home!”

her side. I look down, and Ava is looking up right at

to get me in

tonight,” I tell Lucas as I turn and head downstairs instead. Even if Ava tells on me, she has no evidence that I was ever in the study. And if Jack

before she could fully

he left, after that ugly talk. Ava pauses at Sebastian’s move, so shocked that the pitiful mask

men who followed Jack Fuller into the room. One is Gabriel, and the other is someone I never thought I would see

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