She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

161 A Second Chance

Scarlett’s POV

I stop, but I don’t know how to turn around.

For a long moment I pause there, and for a long moment, he waits patiently behind me.

How great it would be, if he had asked me this question at ANY POINT in our marriage? If he had doubted Ava just a little bit in the long time window when I kept hope, I would have jumped to tell him the truth. If I had even a shred of confidence that he would have belleved me, I would have.

But now…

I turn around, only to find him standing on the green grass when I’m already off on the cold blacktop. A hard line between us, like the five years that we can leap over. He looks at me with too complicated a look that I can’t quite read. In his eyes are hope, struggle, hesitation, and…fear.

of what? Of me being the girl he

I can look into his

Ava ONLY because of that girl, or was your love for her also because of who she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how for ten years I have been the girl who had a crush on you when you could only see me as

of a glance of one day, but if it was…then maybe,

maintain my smile as I count

choose me over Ava before the sun

right,” In the end, as the last shred of sunlight pulls our shadows so long that it reaches into the darkness in the corner where the sun can’t shine

the sky. The story of my first love ends

as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his arm as

eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so why not? This is

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