055 The Perfect Crime
Scarlett’s POV
I would have given everything for such a speech from him, five years ago.
Hell. I did give everything, when I asked for exactly what he is offering me today. If only he had been less cruel to me anywhere in the past five years; if only he believed Granny and did not let his emotion cloud his judgment. But life has no “if only“. I’m not there anymore. I’m not excited, or happy. I’m just tired.
I just want to live my own life without them keep on hurting me.
I can’t go back, not for Granny’s wish, not for my coming baby, not for a Sebastian who still doesn’t see me.
He still doesn’t know that it was me who he saved in the woods, not Ava.
I only found out about this misunderstanding five years ago. When Ava came
bragging to me with a recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his wife in this lifetime.
In the video, Sebastian looked into Ava’s eyes, and said that all he wanted to do was to protect the little girl he saved from the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch of rebellion that he had ever seen. His speech was touching, but I wasn’t happy.
I was shocked, confused, angry, panicking. Everything but happy.
I never knew he had become friends with Ava because he found the wrong girl. He said he cared about that little girl because she was brave, and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were both in front of him for a decade after his “mistake“, yet he never even noticed that what he said that he loved, was nowhere to be found in the girl he kept in his arms.
If he wasn’t lying, then he was blind.
I guess it should be touching, that he ignored all Ava’s faults and disadvantages because of “his feelings for that little girl“, but what I felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved for ten years, loved another horrible girl because he thought she was me?
It means he never saw me for who I was, and he never saw Ava for who she was
either.
+25 BONUS
Maybe that was why when Sebastian pursued Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through her if she got too close. He wouldn’t.
But I guess somewhere deep down, I WAS touched, at that time. And that one shred. of bittersweetness, became my biggest mistake.
“I don’t hate you, Sebastian Knight, but I no longer love you either,” I look at him with a shocking calmness, “please, let’s just end things with a friendly goodbye, and not turn into enemies, okay?”
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