She Accepted Divorce He Panicked (Scarlett and Sebastian) novel Chapter 190

Sebastian’s POV

“What happened?” I ask Jack Fuller. Something triggered Ava. She only saw Scar and I earlier today, and she was fine leaving in her newfound brother’s arms.

“She was calling you before we found her in her room, blood-soaked,” Jack Fuller nails his resentment-filled eyes at me, “So you tell me, what happened to my daughter?! She LOVED you!”

His voice lost shape when he burst out the word love, and it was the first moment I realized that--

She didn’t love me. She never did. She WANTED me.

She demanded my time, my love, my indulgence, and she would be happy only when she got something she wanted from me. She never cared about what I wanted, not like Scar did.

“I’ll go see her,” I open the door to her ward, not wanting to waste time on Jack Fuller.

The ward is completely dark and quiet. Ava is curling up under the cover, facing us with her back. Hard to tell whether she is asleep, or just upset and refusing to talk.

“She just fell asleep, waiting for you,” Jack Fuller blocks between me and the room. His words instantly lit up a furious fire in my chest, “If you are going in like this, all riled up and ready for a fight, then maybe you shouldn’t.”

Did they summon me here in the middle of the night, just to tell me to sit in the hallway waiting for their daughter to get the rest that she couldn’t have gotten without me? What a clown did I make myself?!

“Do I fucking owe you anything?! I’m here as a fucking courtesy! What gave you the courage to play me like this?” I grab his collar and push him against the wall, “Let me make it clear, my help to Ava, AND your business, is out of my kindness. It’s not something you can exploit with such arrogance!”

Jack Fuller blurts with utter fear, his face pale with blood draining from it: “I-I’m sorry!”

I didn’t like him very much, but I never raised my voice at him...because of Ava. But at this moment I really want to smash his despicable face in with my fist! I guess I have indulged the Fullers too much that he dares to talk to me like this.

“He didn’t mean ill! Please, he is just worried about Ava!” Anna Fuller throws herself over to rescue her husband, and I let him go and dodges her. Scar cares about her, well, more than any other Fullers. I don’t want a conflict with her.

“You have no idea what you cost me!” I squeeze my words out of me, having a hard time keeping my voice calm, “This is the last time I’ll help any of you! You better tell Ava that when she wakes up!”