Chapter 50

050 Granny’s Blessing Scarlett’s POV “Your eyes are no longer following him around, and when they land on him, there is only a deep running sorrow in there. The worst finally happened...” Granny lets out a long sigh, “I didn’t want you to go through with the wedding because I didn’t want.

this for you, my poor poor child, I didn’t want you to get hurt so badly that the precious light in your eyes would dim...I guess in the end, I still failed to protect you.”

“Granny...!” I murmur in shock. I never knew! Granny does see through everything, and to think we thought we were successful in tricking her.

“He hurt you bad this time, didn’t he?” Granny asks me coldly, this time the coldness is directed at Sebastian.

Somehow that warms me up more than anything.

She is Sebastian’s family first, and she won’t even be mine if I didn’t blackmail her grandson. Yet when things went wrong, she took my side without even a question. No family has ever done that for me.

But Sebastian’s and my issue is not that simple. There isn’t a clear right or wrong. He wanted Ava, I wanted him, he hurt me for Ava, and now I don’t want him don’t think he did anything horrible, but I can’t go back either.

The once–l–thought fearless love in me burned out. That’s all.

anymore. I “You are going to divorce him, aren’t you?” Granny suddenly asks. She didn’t even need my answer when I was still hesitating on what to say. She got everything from a look at me.

“So why did you object to him and Ava?” I divert the topic, feeling much lighter now the truth is out with Granny, “She loves him, too.”

“Does she?” Granny’s eyes land on Sebastian and Ava coldly, who are talking happily together downstairs, “She WANTS him, sure. He thinks of that as love, but that’s not what makes one happy. Not like what you gave him.”

I don’t agree, but I hold my silence. It’s not easy to love Ava, not to mention for years without any decay. Sebastian has more love in him than I ever had. I only found little Jove in the dark world I lived in, and I can only love a few that love me back. But he can extend love to he didn’t even know her.

a dirty little orphan he found in the woods.

+25 BONUS I could never do that, and that’s why I admire him. It’s just unfortunate that we weren’t meant to be together.

That’s what our story is. Just a pure tragedy “You see that Ava girl for who she is, don’t you?” Granny suddenly says. I hesitate to times, too many, to “my parents“, to the teachers and answer. I have told Ava man our classmates, to Sebastian. To anyone, I thought that cared.

I ended up being the tattletale, and Ava got away with everything, as usual. Sometimes I feel like maybe Ava should not be considered as a bad person, if she only shows that badness to me. I mean, hurting me is not the same as hurting the whole world, is it?

“I guess you can, being her victim.” Granny continues her monologue, “There was this day when I visited your parents‘. You two got into a fight and she cried, getting the adults over. Maybe you don’t remember, you were only around six or seven. I guess I was there one step faster than she estimated, and I saw her kick you before pinching herself on the wrist, and then burst into tears when she had a cold look that’s too sophisticated for that young a kid.”

I don’t really remember. Similar things happened too much.

“What shocks me more, was the calm look on your face as if her actions were normal to you,” Granny shakes her head, “It’s trivia to anyone, but when I see that same sophisticated girl behind her eyes after all these years, I knew it would be a mistake for Sebastian to marry her.”

“You...did you tell him?” I wonder if Granny’s words would make a difference.

“You tried to, didn’t you?” Granny sees through me, “Words can be weak in front of emotions. He has to see clearly on his own. It wouldn’t matter even if I did, but I guess my silence cost you...”

I shake my head at Granny’s sad look. It wasn’t her fault. And like she said, I tried, and nothing would have turned Sebastian against his treasure.

Granny says deeply: “It would be too selfish for me to ask you to go on, so. You do what you need to do, my dear. Nobody can keep saving another, especially when they don’t want to be saved. I hate to see him keep making the same mistake, but I can only save him once.”

I I think Ava just got Granny’s blessing, to be the second Fuller girl marrying Sebastian.