She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked

Scarlett's POV

"Is it true?" I ask Sebastian.

He avoids my question: "I will look into this, I promise!"

In that second all sound fade away. I can't hear anything and I don't see any one. No one but the man who I loved for over a decade. The man who saved me once, who said that he loved me and wanted another chance with me. The man who was telling me how excited he was about the baby he gave me.

"Are you going to be the witness for her alibi?" I ask him, my voice shaking. Anger and disbelief turned my voice into a restrained whisper, "She, MURDERED, our child! And you are telling me you are taking HER side? Really? Sebastian Knight?!" "I'm not taking her side--"Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

"It, was, her!" I burst out, glaring into his eyes, "The alarm system didn't go off when she barged into our house; she didn't steal anything valuable and she went straight to me! And do you know why she could do all this? Because you fucking let her! Did you really not know that I was pregnant? Were you trying to get close to me just for this plan?!"

A hurtful look crawls onto Sebastian's face.

What's he hurt about?! He wanted his Ava! He chose his Ava over me, over our child! He never wanted the child, and now I lost him! He said he loved me and he said he would choose me and he said he believed me! All fucking lies! He just "had to go and see Ava" and "happened" to be in her ward when a random robber sneaked into our house with such high skills that the best security system failed to catch a scent?!

"You always assume the worst of people," Ava blocks Sebastian with her body, her voice righteous with tears of just and care, "That's why Sebastian is divorcing you for me--Ohh, I'm sorry!"

She covers her mouth as if it were a slip of the tongue, darting her timid deer eyes to Sebastian. Her worst acting ever.

He is not looking at her, but he is not denying it either. He stares at me, his eyes shaking as if he is in tremendous pain.

I'm so sick of this disgusting, lying couple. They should enter the acting business together and stick to each other so no one else would get hurt!

"Do you really think I still fucking

care?" I laugh at Ava, shaking my head. She never knew what really matters, and she's always after the most shallow things. Like a boy who loved another girl. Like a marriage with a man who doesn't deserve love.

"You want him? He is yours. He can accompany you when I drag you down into the hell for all I care!"

For the very first time, Ava is not annoyed by my words, but extremely happy. She pulls a stack of papers out of her bag, handing them to me along with a pen: "Prove that you mean it. Sign it." Divorce Agreement. How familiar.

"Are you crazy?! Your dear sister just woke up, and this is what you give her?!" Aurora yells at Ava, and Adrian snaps the papers out of Ava, gripping them to tear them up.

"Adrian!" I snap sharply and he stops, staring at me in disbelief, "I can't sign them fast enough! I don't mind. Give me the pen!"

Everyone in the room wears a sullen look, even Jack Fuller. Sebastian stands far away from my bed, alone and away as if he is really sad about all this. Fool me twice, shame on me! I was the one who let him fool me, over and over again. I really paid the ultimate price. To trust him, I paid with my son's life! What did he do?! He only chose himself a stupid mom who failed to protect him, that's all!

I signed with shaking hands before I

threw the papers into Ava's face -- or, I tried to the papers fly everywhere and everyone steps away, avoiding them as the disgusting trash they are. All but

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Ava. She kneels on the floor, trying to catch the papers as if they are some treasure, madness in her eyes. Even her parents look away, closing their eyes.

The papers seemed to have brought the quietness I have long sought.

For the following days, Sebastian never came again. Nor did Damian Vanderbilt. Not even Adrian or Oliver Scott. And certainly not the Fullers. Even Lilith came only from time to time busy. Aurora was the only one who kept me accompany and I told

her no.

I just want to be alone. I don't know how to deal with the emptiness in my belly. I don't know how to deal with the emptiness of my life. I don't know, how to move on from a life lost. A life that I loved so much without even knowing it. But my peace lasted only that long before Ava barges into my room:

"Scarlett Fuller! Did you tell him to sue me?! You know he is planning our wedding! How could you?!"