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 me being the girl he

a deep breath just so I can look into his eyes, “Do you WANT

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

could only come out of a glance of one day, but if it was…then maybe, maybe, I can try

maintain my smile as I count the seconds, giving myself a time limit as I wait for his answer

loved Ava, if you choose me over Ava before the sun goes down, then I will be brave for you

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 on, Sebastian lets out a resighed laugh, “the harm is

them, smiling at the sky. The story of my first love ends

I open my eyes as I flinch,

It ended anyway, so why not? This is the only kiss shared between us without hatred in his eyes and jealousy

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