127 Lashing Out
Scarlett’s POV
“No, thanks,” Noticing Ava’s stare | add, “I have to go and guard my plunder.”
Jack Fuller left the table when Ava teared up at her prince gulping in sweat. Anna Fuller sat through the dinner
with us, mostly out of manner before she left the moment she was allowed to.
But not Ava. She stayed, and apparently, she had words for him, too.
It's been a long day, and | need to make sure | have a bed to sleep in for the night. | wouldn't be too surprised if
Ava bought Alfred to mess up the room instead of cleaning.
“I'll walk you to your room then,” He offers jokefully, adding before I could say no, “Or you'd rather talk about
our deal here?”
“Seb...” Ava murmurs timidly as she approaches.
| swing off his hand, looking at him coldly to wait for his decision. | know what his decision would be. Ava knows
too. The only one who doesn’t seem to know is him.
Ava nails her eyes on Sebastian, and he nails his on me. | leave. Love is a gbig enough for only two, and | no
longer want to play with them.
He is not stoppingthis time.
Alfred did a good job with Ava’s room. He cleaned out all her traces. Almost like she has not lived here. To make
Fullers kept them.
A thick album with a unicorn on the pick cover — my taste when | was too young to see the distance in my
“parents’ eyes”. | put my finger on
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the cover, trying to decide whether to look at my most precious memory from when | hadn't found out the true
color of my family, or just burn it.
“May | take a look?”
| close my eyes, and Sebastian pulls the album out from under my finger gently. He followedup. | know | can
upset Ava easily now, when Sebastian suddenly is hell-bent on maintaining our marriage; | know if | so much just
nod, | can have the man | have wanted for years, at least on the surface.
But it’s just not the same.
He is not the boy who savedanymore. There is ten years of hatred between us. And I'm not that helpless
little girl either. | am too broken to even consider loving him again.
“You ditched Ava,” | say as a statement, and going through the album, Sebastian quickly puts it down as he
explains almost in haste-
“I told her | need to keep a distance from her, that was all.”
| turn around and look at him: “You think bullying her makeshappy?”
“Does it not?” He answers with a question.
“Is that why you are here? Sebastian Knight? You indulgedin wracking her room, you sat withon the
dinner table instead of her, and announcedas your wife in front of her. All to makehappy?”
“I did those things because they are the right things to do,” Sebastian finally puts away that innocent smile, “I
can see that you are not happy, but | don’t know why-"
“Because it shouts athow much you hated and tormented me!” | can’t raise my voice when the sourness
kicks in, “It tellsthat you knew exactly what you were doing towhen you sat next to her on
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Sebastian freezes at my outburst,
pain fills his eyes but I'm not feeling
guilt. The pain he [xno Mm
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been doing to me. Where was he
when | was in pain, waiting for him
alone while he was out there painting
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Ava as his mistress over my dignity?!
“I don’t care what you are trying to do or why you are doing this,” I tell him slowly, word after word, “I, don’t,
want, you, anymore!”
He stands there with a hurtful look. He tries to say things but fails tafter time. | thought I finally pushed him
to his limit, so when he raised his hand | closed my eyes in fear.
Long silence.
When | finally look at him, he barely
hides away the pain in his eyes. He
sighs with a bitter, smife) rubbing thy
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In the end, he left, leaving the album open to a page whereand Ava wore the sdress. &