She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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008 Dragon Blood

008 Dragon Blood POV

Scarlett's

Sitting on the cold floor, | realize | made my judgment too early.

| thought my life used to be a living hell. How wrong was I. Though everyone treatedhorribly, never did they

lay a finger on me.ter all, | was the precious blood vessel for the fragile Ava. They couldn't afford to lose me. But

not anymore.

| palm my face, looking up slowly at the man | once called father, only to realize the coldness in his eyes: I'm still

the blood vessel, just not "precious" anymore. I'm now a nice to have.

After all, Ava is all but healed now.

They won't tossaway because | might still have value What do they have to lose if | don't get my chance of a

normal life?

For that slight "might", | can't have my freedom. I'm not allowed to leave the city and have my own They don't

care if my heart would be broken a million times every day here, seeing Sebastian with They don't care that |

might also need love, from somewhere, anywhere And they can afford to physically hurtnow.

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| dart my disbelieving eyes to "Mom", to the woman that | once thought might have spared just a little love in

her heart foreven though most of it is reserved for her beloved real daughter

She won't look at me. She just covers her face with her palm and sobs, just like every twhen Jack forced me

to give blood to Ava to the point that | would faint

"Mom, please, answer me."

Just say that you really hurt yourself. Say that you told Jack to not lureback. Say that there is a shred of love

in your heart for me, that even though you need my blood for your beloved daughter, you also wanted happiness

forPlease, just lie toLike before

to you to fucking stop talking to her Jack Fuller charges atagain, like an angry bull.

To my surprise, Sebastian blocks him

"Luck Sebastian's muscled figure towers over Jack's beer belly, "Whatever this is about, you can use your words

instead of raising your hand"

Actually. I'm not too surprised. He is the perfect prince charming. Even for a despicable me, he will stand up for.

If he didn't savethat time, then | wouldn't have fallen in love with him.

What a mistake.

"How could you hurt your mom like this? Can't get to me, Jack shouts atthrough Sebastian, "Don't you have

no shame, you ungrateful brat! She loves you and you are hurting her heart with that lover

Yes, that's what | used to believe I let out a laugh, mocking the naive, stupid me

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Mom bursts into a horrified cry, and Jack dashes over to take her into his arms.

"You don't want to hurt Anna, Scar," Sebastian frowns at me, holding his hand out forwith detest in his eyes.

"I'm the one who you are upset with. We can solve it at home."

Home? | laugh bitterly. We don't have a hanymore, Sebastian. | built one for us, and you broke it.

I don't have a hnow. | ner had one. And today, I lost the last person in the family I thought that had shed

love on me, no matter how little.

I look at his condescending offer, like the knight in his shining armor saving a damsel in distress.

I was never the damsel he wanted to save.

He regretted savingthat one time, too. The next day after he saved me, he becbest friends with Ava,

and started looking atwith detest like everyone else. Loving him as my salvation was just another lie | have

been telling myself.

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"You want to sit there forever?" He gets impatient the next second, draggingto my feet by my forearm.

"Sebastian?" Ava's voice rises by the door, and | watch Sebastian pull his hand back like | have some

-virus on my

av arm.

"Mom? What's wrong?" Ava's voice turns anxious when she sees Mom crying, her angry eyes soon dart at me,

"Scarlett! Did you make Mom cry?!"

"And if it is?" | retort, and she charges at me.

The next second Sebastian runs over and picks Ava up into his arms: "Carefull Shards on the floor!"

Now that's love.

Not a condescending scold while "saving"when he didn't even care that | was bleeding. But to stride over

the minefield just so she won't get hurt in the slightest way. Watching the two pairs of righteous couples holding

each other, protecting their loved ones fromultimate evil. | lower my eyes and rub my forearm where red

finger marks are left. Suddenly | lost all the interest to even talk to any of these people.

This is my life. My loving family and my perfect husband, protecting the real princess from me, the evil dragon.

| wish they would slay me, but they won't. They lock the dragon up in a dark dungeon to harvest the dragon «

blood. That's my only value to them. Always have been, always will be.

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