She Accepted Divorce He Panicked (Scarlett and Sebastian) novel Chapter 173

Scarlett's POV

“Ava, is that you?”

Sebastian asks and I look away. I wouldn’t look too good if I saw the pain and care on his face.

“Sebastian, I’m scared...” Ava begs in a crying tone.

“It will be fine,” He comforts her patiently, “Can you give the phone to your dad? I need to talk to him, alone.”

A short moment of silence before Jack Fuller’s voice comes through again: “I’m here.”

“I don’t want Ava to hear this,” Sebastian insists, waiting.

I don’t want to wait anymore. I have waited for him long enough. I turn and leave, but he grabs my forearm and pulls me back to him. Bumped into him, I cover my mouth just to not make a sound when the damn phone is right in front of me--

“She can’t hear you,” Jack Fuller answers calmly.

“Good,” Sebastian nods slightly, “Sounds like Ava is not dying of blood loss, so what are you requiring Scar’s presence for?”

Dead silence.

I shoot my head up in shock, staring at him as if seeing him for the first time. Lilith, too. Damian Vanderbilt exchanges a look with Oliver Scott, who has a sullen look on.

A slight click of a door comes through the phone, magnified by the speaker. Apparently Jack Fuller just closed a door. To leave a room? Guess he wasn’t alone after all.

“You knew Ava was listening,” Jack Fuller grunts, obvious anger in his voice, “I’m merely asking Scarlett to come visit her sister--”

“By sending bodyguards with an order of ‘by all means necessary’?” Sebastian’s voice now shows real anger, more than before with its icy aura, “You shouldn’t have lied for her, but I said what I said just in case you did, because my original question was, What are you requiring Scar’s presence for but a show of power over Scar?!”

What?!

I blink, shocked and speechless. Is this the same Sebastian I knew? Yelling at Ava’s dad...for me? Since when did he stop being blind to the Fullers???