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

breath just so I can

girl but you

of a glance of one day, but

together with the sky. I maintain my smile as I count the seconds, giving

me over Ava before the sun goes down,

reaches into the darkness in the corner where the sun can’t shine on, Sebastian lets out a resighed laugh, “the harm is done, and the truth so long

close my eyes when the dim sky somehow burns them, smiling at the sky. The story of my first love

eyes as I flinch,

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

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