050 Granny’s Blessing
Scarlett’s POV
“Your eyes are no longer following him around, and when they land on him, there is only a deep running sorrow in there. The worst finally happened…” Granny lets out a long sigh, “I didn’t want you to go through with the wedding because I didn’t want. this for you, my poor poor child, I didn’t want you to get hurt so badly that the precious light in your eyes would dim…I guess in the end, I still failed to protect you.”
“Granny…!” I murmur in shock. I never knew! Granny does see through everything, and to think we thought we were successful in tricking her.
“He hurt you bad this time, didn’t he?” Granny asks me coldly, this time the coldness is directed at Sebastian.
Somehow that warms me up more than anything.
She is Sebastian’s family first, and she won’t even be mine if I didn’t blackmail her grandson. Yet when things went wrong, she took my side without even a question. No family has ever done that for me.
But Sebastian’s and my issue is not that simple. There isn’t a clear right or wrong. He wanted Ava, I wanted him, he hurt me for Ava, and now I don’t want him don’t think he did anything horrible, but I can’t go back either.
The once–l–thought fearless love in me burned out. That’s all.
anymore. I
“You are going to divorce him, aren’t you?” Granny suddenly asks. She didn’t even need my answer when I was still hesitating on what to say. She got everything from a look at me.
“So why did you object to him and Ava?” I divert the topic, feeling much lighter now the truth is out with Granny, “She loves him, too.”
“Does she?” Granny’s eyes land on Sebastian and Ava coldly, who are talking happily together downstairs, “She WANTS him, sure. He thinks of that as love, but that’s not what makes one happy. Not like what you gave him.”
I don’t agree, but I hold my silence. It’s not easy to love Ava, not to mention for years without any decay. Sebastian has more love in him than I ever had. I only found little Jove in the dark world I lived in, and I can only love a few that love me back. But he can extend love to he didn’t even know her.
a dirty little orphan he found in the woods.
+25 BONUS
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