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.

me being the girl he saved? Or

deep breath just so I can look into his eyes,

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

strong love could only come out of a glance of one day,

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

choose me over Ava

sunlight pulls our shadows so long that it reaches into the darkness in the corner where the sun can’t shine on,

the dim sky somehow burns them, smiling at the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for what it’s worth, it has an ending as pretty

flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his

In tears, I close my eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so why not? This is

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