She Accepted Divorce He Panicked (Scarlett and Sebastian) novel Chapter 209

Sebastian’s POV

Scarlett – or, okay, – Scar, is like no homecoming queen before.

She couldn’t make the notion of she doesn’t give a shit clearer. She is not up and waving, or sending kisses, or smiling at the crowd crazy for her, she just lies on her throne, leaning lazily on the wagon like a sleepy cat, curls her fingers cutely when she feels like it, with her lips carelessly curved. And when that lights up the crowd, she just lets out a cute laugh, landing her chin on her elbow and sticking her tongue a little, making the people go off crazy.

It makes me crazy for her more, too.

“Why did you choose me?” Waving at the crowd, I ask as casually as I can.

I try to play the king. Well, failing to.

I feel like I don’t know her. Not anymore. I just don’t know if it was the past five years that changed her into this Harley Queen, or it was the accident five years ago alone.

I feel like from the moment Scar gave Ava the empty smile saying her name was now only Scar, I fell into a dream. A nightmare.

I watched Scar saying the word “blood”, scaring the shit out of Ava, before she leaned into the masked man as if for a kiss, only to bite the masked man’s throat teasingly.

I looked away so the image doesn’t burn my eyes.

At that moment I really felt like I saw Claudia, the innocent yet greedy, pure yet bloodthirsty new-turned vampire in that old movie. Interview with the vampire?

The masked man looked calm enough, as if used to her craziness. But Ava definitely looked like she just saw a flesh-eating monster.

“You-you dare not…Daddy would--” Ava couldn’t even finish that line because everyone at that moment knew – “Daddy” had no power over this new Scar.

After all, she got rid of everything that “daddy” had ever given her, all the way to the name.

Scar. What a fitting name. That was all she got from them. From me, too.

Scar narrowed her eyes on Ava like a predator on her prey. Her face was straight without any emotion, not even a slight shade of anger. But her soulless stare intimidated Ava more than anything, making her stumble back and grip my sleeve.

That was when Scar put away that empty smile. She jumped off the masked man’s lap and reached her hand out to me, a dangerous smirk on her scarlet lips.

Her eyes emptied my mind, and unable to even think, I took her hand.

Her light little announcement took away most of my sleep, and all my peace in the past five years. And my soul couldn’t rest for a short moment, even in the deepest of my dreams.

It was her.

My dream was nothing but her face. The cute ones, innocent ones, luring ones, and sad ones.

It has always been her.

But I lost her. I swore to protect her, yet I lost her the very next day. I not only failed my promise, I protected her enemy, and watched her enemy tear her apart.

I never deserved her.

My real Scar is still lost. Trapped in the dark woods of her horrible past. And she wouldn’t come back with me, because this time, I put her there.

To get her back, I’d trade places with her.