She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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096 Deadly Trap Scarlett's POV

question.

Bumping into Sebastian was a surprise. | couldn't imagine anything would be able to pull him away from Ava,

especially when she is really hurt this time. He looked like he had something to say, but in the end, he seemed to

have changed his mind to a meaningless | don't know how to answer, and frankly speaking, | don't think he was

waiting for a legit answer.

When did he lose me? The past months where he made Ava's hospital his one and only home? The true love's

kiss he shared with his beloved princess? All the neglection over the years, the mocking and cold snorts? Or our

wedding night he spent with Ava? Or maybe, he already lostthe second day he saved me, when he took the

princess as the little dragon he saved.

| guess | knew the marriage was dead way before this. It died in one of those long, lonely nights when | sat in our

bed, imagining my husband being on another woman's bed. | just thought maybe | could hang on for just a little

bit, and he would caround.

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al Love doesn't hurt the most, hope does.

It was the slight glimpse of hope that "if he could fall foronce, then he would again" that draggedon the

path of thorns through all these years. Every tit hurt, every t| wanted to quit, every t| looked up

divorce lawyers, it was hope that kepton What a deadly trap hope can be.

It stopped hurting when | stopped hoping. | no longer want anything from him, and now he can't hurt me.

"Scar? What are you doing here? You should be resting," Adrian is surprised to findright out of the doctor's

office, "I was- are you okay? You look like you have seen a ghost." The ghost of a horrible past.

"I'm okay, | don't need to be hospitalized," | shake my head, "I just want to make sure the baby is okay. Did the

doctor tell anyone? Granny? Sebastian?! | saw him just now in the-

"Calm down, your secret is safe," Adrian grabs my shoulders, and his firm hands soothe me, "the doctor didn't

tell anyone, and | have explained the situation to him. No one can get to your medical record, not even if the

Fullers cwith your birth certificate."

"I can't thank you enough!" I sigh, finally letting the breath | was holding out. | was so nervous to let them know

about the baby. | don't think Sebastian would be cold enough to harm a baby, but | don't want to bet -on his

choice between Ava and anything. | have lost too much to that seemingly hopeful bet.

"Now can you go back to your bed?" Adrian says with a light tone, but | see the hidden anger in his eyes. He

understands my fear, and he is angry at them on my behalf, "I have got something to take care of, but I'll come

later-"

"I can't," | shake my head, gripping my phone, "-I might need to go..."

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"Go where?!" Adrian frowns in surprise, "You were just kidnapped for two whole days, and you have had enough

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for one day. Nothing is more important than you taking your rest right now."

Yeah, Ava is.

I look down at my phone, and the text from "mom" is still glowing at me: [Scar, Ava's situation is not looking

good. If you would, please, cfor me.]

| dare not to tell Adrian that I might be going to get sblood taken from me, when he spent so much effort to

save my ass.

| don't want to go, but | know the consequences. Mom is the one trying first with "carrot", but if | dare to not go,

Jack Fuller's "stick" WILL follow. He is not as rich or powerful as Sebastian, but he has enough resources to

extinguish any of MY attempts. They raisedto be Ava's blood vessel, and it's not a fate | can get out of

easily...

Unless | leave the city for good, and make the cost for Jack Fuller to get his daughter blood higher than the

ordinary way. | couldn't do it before, but with someone as powerful as Sebastian, maybe... "Adrian, I...I have a «

favor to ask."

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