Sebastian’s POV
Scott left alone.
Vanderbilt covers his face, ignoring me completely as he waits in desperation. So do Scar’s two friends. I would have stayed anyway if that could help, but I know where I’m needed more--
I have to go and see Ava.
If a whole blood bank wasn’t enough, then one man’s donation would hardly be. I have always worried about Ava’s condition, but we had Scar to count on whenever Ava needed blood, so I have never thought that the healthy, strong woman would one day lie in the emergency room, waiting for the rare blood to save her life.
And the only one who can help, is her sister who we just had a falling out with.
I knew it would be hard to get Ava to help, but I didn’t know it would be this hard.
“What are you even doing here?!” Jack Fuller guards the door, grunting at me. He has been barking at me for five minutes. He is not keeping his voice low, and we both know that Ava heard all of it in there.
He is showing me her attitude: she doesn’t want to see me.
“Scarlett is your daughter, and she is severely wounded--”
“She is NOT my daughter!” Jack Fuller spats, glaring at me viciously with his face red, “Did you two made that clear to us?! She is not a Fuller, and she doesn’t see herself as one!”
“She has saved Ava’s life for so many times--”
“And I have been paying for her life!” Jack Fuller snorts, cutting me off, “She has made it pretty clear that she doesn’t fucking care about Ava’s life. Do you even hear how ridiculous you are, coming here to demand Ava to care about hers?”
I look at the guy who I have known as a loving father for years, realizing how stupid I have been.
Scarlett cared about her family.
I saw how much she loved Anna, and how much that hurt her. I saw how she wanted Jack’s approval, and how much he had hurt her. I saw how Scar saw Ava as her responsibility no matter how reluctant she was, all the way until she suddenly asked me to marry her.
She was deeply hurt by these people, and she wanted to stay away. Even so, she tried to stay away instead of getting revenge. Because Scar knew the Vanderbilts were her real family, and if she even wanted to inflict any pain on the Fullers, she wouldn’t have kept away from Damian Vanderbilt.
I have never seen the Fullers more clearly than right now, and I see how I have been helping a bunch of bloodsuckers to bully my own wife, who is possibly the only one in this shitty family that ever truly cared about me.
I AM ridiculous. How ridiculously stupid have I been that I thought I was protecting an angel when I was hurting the real one?!!!
I thought Scar was the one cutting her blood-sucking family off when she saw what I failed to see: they never cared about her. Not only that. They have no morals, let alone love.
I used to judge Scar for being relunctant on helping Ava, but now seeing the Fuller’s heartless shame I finally know.
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