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041 The Most Partial Person
Sebastian’s POV
Granny’s birthdays have been the happiest days of our marriage, that’s for sure.
For a moment there, I seem to have seen the Scar I used to know. When I felt her tender body under my plam again, when I saw her lively eyes. When she talked to me.
She used to report everything to me. Even a weird–shaped cloud outside her window she would take a picture and send it to me, adding a smiley face. But now, all she talks about with me is the fucking divorce.
I don’t want to get a divorce.
Too much is at stake. The stock, the company’s image, Granny’s wrath. I clearly remember how stern Granny was when she heard that the marriage was a deal Scar made by threatening a life. I don’t know how Scar turned Granny around, but Granny loves Scar now, sometimes more than she loves me.
Scar keeps using Ava to probe me. About how I can marry Ava now. That’s how I know she still cares about me, she just hides her love away and wouldn’t let me see any. Her way of showing her love used to be nothing but sweet words and smiles.
I never thought one day I would miss them.
I thought I hated her, but the truth is, I have gotten used to her being around, just like Granny did. She can be mean, cold, and sarcastic, but somehow she permeates your life stealthily like the roots of a tree, and when she pulls up that root, it hurts, all over.
I want things to go back to the way before Ava’s surgery. I once thought that would be how my life is like forever, and I have accepted that. But she wouldn’t let me. She planted her roots in my life, and now she is determined to pull it up.
Now she only looks at me with fire in her eyes. No love.
“Sure, I fucking invited her just to humiliate her, okay?!” Scar darts her angry eyes off me, trying her best to not put on her angry face, “Since my evil plan failed anyway, can we drop it now?!”
I try to remain patient and calm: “Scar, I want to believe you, but you need to-”
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