She Accepted Divorce He Panicked (Scarlett and Sebastian) novel Chapter 224

“This is just going to piss Scarlett off!”

Huffing at her father, Ava rolls her eyes as they pass the dim passageway with the bidders. Not like she is willing to give in to Scarlett on the necklace, but publicly selling off the necklace to her is only a declaration of war, something her cautious father would never do. But Jack Fuller seems determined to follow through.

The auction allows masks, not that a simple mask could conceal one’s identity, especially at the level of people who can afford to be here. But still, Ava has a mask on. Not only that, she’s also in a sluttier dress with the back cutting all the way to her waist – to throw people off, as she says.

But Jack Fuller knows these are just Ava’s ways of acting out. After the fallout with Sebastian. He knows his daughter better than anyone else, and for all the years of her playing the tamed angle for Sebastian, there is bound to be a blowout after she lost all hope of that man.

Complying with Ava, Jack Fuller is also under a mask. Unlike his daughter's high-key feathery coquettish one, his is a simple black mask that covers half of his face.

“If that’s your worry, then you would have stayed in the hospital ward five years ago,” Jack Fuller says in an indifferent tone, but the coldness in his voice makes Ava turn around for a startled peek at her father.

It’s her dark secret between father and daughter. Even Anna doesn’t know.

Her father pieced everything together even before Sebastian could. Although still too late. All he could do back then was to follow through with her plan and cover up for her. Sure, he saved her ass, but he never ceased to make it clear that her secret is a sharp sword he is willing to hang over her head to control her.

Is that salvation?

Ava feels like she has just been in a different form of prison in the past five years, the same as Scar. Maybe Sebastian failed to put her in jail, but Jack Fuller surely did.

“I’m behaving, aren’t I?” Ava hides her complaint in a tamed tone, letting no huffs out, “All I’m trying to do is avoid that psycho. She’s the one who won’t leave us in peace!”

“She lost her child, Ava. Can you blame her?” Jack Fuller says sternly.

From the moment he knew that the baby died, he knew Scar wouldn’t let it go easily this time. Sure, they never loved Scar before, but he knew Scar well enough to know that no matter how mean they were to her, she wouldn’t initiate harm on any of them just because she was denied something she wanted. That’s Scar.

But a child is a feud that even Scar wouldn’t let go. She could tolerate Ava stealing a man, but not her baby.