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081 A Gamble On Life
Scarlett's POV
| wouldn't even know that he didn't sign the papers if the policeman hadn't found the folder in Liam Ryan's
belongings and checked the content.
Sebastian raises his hand, and | hand it over, only to notice that both our hands are shaking visibly.
"Are you alright?" Sebastian takes my arm instead of the folder, his other hand. holding my shoulder, "You are
freezing! Did you take the hot cocoa-?"
His eyes land on the milk beside me. | only had a few sips.
"I haven't had anything for more than a day, what did you expect?" | push him away, sitting down at the back of
the ambulance, seeing black spots in front of my eyes as I try to adjust to my dizzy head. | was too shocked by
the near- death experience and the medical staff suggested a short rest first.
Talking to Sebastian is not a rest. It boils my blood at the price of my little remained
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energy.
"I know you are not feeling well right now, and | know you are mad at me," After a hesitation, Sebastian says in a
low voice, "I just want to let you know that | wouldn't have let you fall, if that means anything to you."
"I heard your fucking choice, Sebastian!" | didn't know | had such anger inuntil the curse burst out of me,
"What are you looking for from me? To say that you didn't do anything wrong? That you should choose Ava Fuller
at the price of my life?!"
"l...I'm sorry..." Sebastian looks like he wants to explain, but he just apologizes again, "You have every right to
blme, and | know you are scared. | just...I don't want you to be hurt because | named Ava, because-"
"Because he knows you love her, and if you choose to let Ava die, Liam Ryan would have done it without
hesitation," I nod, shaking my head slowly.
I know him too well. | know his thoughts with just a look at him.
"You-! You understood that?!" Sebastian's voice raised with pleasant surprise," Thank God, Scar! | didn't think
you would-"
"I don't fucking understand!" | cut him off coldly. The fury in my chest burns brighter and brighter as | look at
him, the man | once loved, with such deep hatred. He wants
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to do the right thing, always, but sometimes there isn't a way to do the right thing. while having it AND eating it.
| can't co-exist with Ava, and he doesn't seem to understand that he needs to make a choice. He already made
the fucking choice.
"What | understood while you failed to, is that you risked my life to gamble for hers, and you
do not fucking have that right!" | tried to keep my voice down but failed at that, "You "THINK" your strategy can
keep the both of us safe, but that's just a good wish. What if he dropped
could have caught mine if Liam Ryan droppedinstead?!"
Blood drains from Sebastian's face, and that givesthe vicious sweetness of revenge. | don't care if I'm not
being reasonable right now. | don't fucking care about anything!
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"You want to talk about the truth?! Then letfucking tell you the truth! The truth is, if you had at least been
fair on taking my blood for her, then | wouldn't be so desperate that I'd be lured to Ava at midnight for a faint
hope of leaving the city! The truth is, if you hadn't paus Ava by enjoying your intimate twith her in public,
and you forcedto pay for what you two did!"
In the end, | didn't even know what | was shouting. I just wanted to let out all the fumes stuck in my chest this
whole time. And the consequence islosing balance when my eyes went dark..
"Scar!" Sebastian grabs my arm, and | claw and kick to push him away-
"Don't touch me!"
"Scar, it's me!" Adrian's voice rises by my side, and | feel the arms holdingare firm and unfamiliar - not
Sebastian's. For that, | finally calmed down.
"Shhh, you are okay..." Adrian comforts me, and | bite my lips, not wanting to burst. into tears in his arms twice
in one day.
Can | have his warm arms to myself? For real?
Before my eyes could see clearly again, Ava's greasy voice raised with her innocent mask on again: "Seb...are «
you okay?"