She Accepted Divorce He Panicked (Scarlett and Sebastian) novel Chapter 234

Sebastian calls again. Not utter anything like Scar, he just simply raises his plate every time Ava does.

Up on the second floor, the man just raises his plate whenever the host calls out the new price, as if the plate is remote, and he is changing the channel just to kill time. Down there, Ava is squirming on her seat as if there are thorns coming out of the cushion. Every time Sebastian raises she would turn and look at him, huffing so hard that her chest is heaving like waves as if it’s visible for the man thirty feet away.

It's not. Or, the man chooses not to see.

Then Ava would dart her head between the host announcing the end of apparently her life and the man she loved with all her life, fighting for the plate with her father during the little pauses until she bites the bullet and raises again, only to turn more desperate when the man crashes her hope time after time.

Watching the farce, Scar feels like Ava’s tears fuels on the darkness in her soul, and right now as it burns, finally a tiny shred of light is dripping into her heart that has been under the dark cloud for a very long time.

If Sebastian is fighting Ava for the ring just so it could be a gift from him, Ava wouldn’t be acting so frantically without a hold of herself. Maybe after so long, after she had told him Ava’s most vicious lie, the man who loves Ava the most, the white Knight that has protected the most vicious for the better part of his life, is finally starting to come to his senses? Maybe. Maybe not.

It’s just not Scar’s business anymore.

She couldn’t care less if Sebastian still loves Ava. Actually, she hopes that he does, because then a stab into Ava’s heart from him would hurt more.

That’s Scar’s revenge.

She is again standing against Ava, but not to save that man from a lie this time. She is here to destroy the serpent once and for all. Ava’s army? Scar will break them into pieces. Her minion of a brother, her fallen angel of a mother, her dark guardian of a father, her friends, her reputation, her career, her everything! All these added up would still not make up for the little life Ava crumbled with her dark heart made of stone, but it would be a start.

“Sebastian!” Ava breaks down, tears with a wail burst out when the price only just raised another 200,000$. The number is not huge. Not as much as the emotional damage Ava took. Jack Fuller has to arrest her struggling body with his own arms as he drags Ava out of the room. Their plate was left on their seat.

“How do you like the show, princess?”

Scar watches Ava disappear with a cold stare, only to be startled by Silco’s question.

“You should be sorry,” Silco lets out a light laugh, “for not giving them a lethal strike. At least tell me you enjoyed playing your prayer by raising the price 10,000$ at a time.”

Seeing Silco’s smile, Scar finally realizes he’s just teasing her.

“I’m trying to save YOUR money!” Scar hmphs, turning away to hide her genuine nervousness raised by his teasing. He gave her a budget of two billion for the necklace when he had no obligation to.

They are only revenge partners, and the nicer he is, the more guilty Scar feels about spending his money. She didn’t grow up worried about her next meal, but she was raised like a spoiled princess. Her allowance was monitored tightly, and buying anything on the expensive side would start a war with Ava. Not to mention, Scar stopped taking the allowance from the Fullers when she understood what “adopted” means.

Silco is not laughing at Scar’s complaint. He watches Scar closely, a shade of anger in his eyes. But when Scar looks up, he looks away and hides his emotions perfectly.

“Let me teach you a lesson, sweetheart.”