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

breath just so I can look into his

because of who she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how

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

my smile as I count

you choose me over Ava before the sun goes

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

story of my first love ends here, but, for what it’s worth, it has an ending as pretty as its

my lips. Startled, I open my eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist

the kiss. It ended anyway, so why not? This is the only kiss shared

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