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.

being

a deep breath just so I can look

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

how such a strong love could only come out of a

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

loved Ava, if you choose me over Ava before the

darkness in the corner where the sun can’t

burns them, smiling at the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for

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

let me go. In tears, I close my eyes and accept the kiss. 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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