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.

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

I’m not

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

sullen and disappointed look on his

you okay…?” Lucas asks, sticking his head out

answer, only to realize my grumping tone,

this shithole!

Lucas cocks his eyebrows, “What about the necklace? You don’t

he wanted to destroy it, he would have years ago. I’m

“Daddy is home!”

shout catches my attention. She was crying on the sofa with her friends around her. Sebastian is not by her side. I look down, and Ava is looking up right at me at the

planning to get me

downstairs instead. Even if Ava tells on me, she has no evidence that I was ever in

she could fully turn around she points in my direction

of me. I thought he left, after that ugly talk. Ava pauses at Sebastian’s move,

Fuller into the room. One is Gabriel, and the other is someone I never thought I

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