She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked

026 Happlest Day Of My Life

Scarlett's POV

"Not couldn't, Just didn't, at first," Aurora explains patiently.

Lilith looks vexed at herself.

"You were already planning the wedding, so we thought there was no need to let you know that her proposed to Ava." Aurora continues, "That would only plant a bump in your marriage. It won't do good to anyone."

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only found out that he went to propose to you on the same day later," Lilith adds with a devastated look, "I tried to tell you again, but I couldn't, seeing how happy you were in those days."

Yeah, the happiest days of my life were the few days after Sebastian agreed to marry me....until the wedding started my five-year-long nightmare.

"It's okay, it's not like I didn't know that he loves Ava...

"No, you don't get it," Lilith cups my face, looking into my eyes firmly, "It's not about him loving Ava Iron Lady threw Ava out! She forbade Sebastian from marrying Ava! They wouldn't have gotten married even if you didn't marry him. You, didn't, break them up!" What...?

Her words shock my mind empty. I stare at her, lost. Water pours out of my eyes, and I feel the heavy stone on my chest for years, finally lifted.

"Then I went to the wedding," Lilith wipes her red eyes, continuing as tears keep pouring out, "I told myself that I would tell you if I see even a shred of doubt about him in your eyes. In the end, I couldn't do it. And I have to live with the fact that you are sinking deeper and deeper into a marriage without a good base, and I didn't stop you in time..." Silly Lilith.

m sorry...I wanted to reach out, but I didn't know how," Lilith lets out a plaint, "I thought it would make it easier for you if I stayed out of your life. You know how much I hated that jerk..."

She really is silly. She could only make my life better with her in it.

"Don't you ever, ever, dare to leave my life ever again!" pull Lilith in my arms, and Aurora complains about leaving her out as she joins our hug.

In their arms, my lost soul finally settles down.

I'm okay now, I will be. I have got my family right here.

Aurora catches me and Lilith up with the

gaps in these years. Lilith cries and laughs before crying again, and I just curl on the little sofa and listen, finally able to smile from deep in my heart. The cozy air around the dim light makes the night calm and peaceful, though I can't have alcohol, I'm drunk by my newly fou world, and...

Feeling safe.

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026 Happiest Day Of My Life

"I really should have told you..." Lilith lets out a plaint, didn't know you have been carrying ours burden. How could that jerk blame you for not being able to marry Ava?

"It's okay, not a big deal now," I find that I can shrug it offhow, "Glad to know that I didn't ruin ther chance completely, but they have their reasons to blame me, too. Maybe granny would access Aved Sebastian could have tried more times, you know?" "Granny?" Lilith exchanges a shocked look with AuroraUpstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

A giggle escapes me. I forgot. All us kids who grew up near "the Iron Lady fear her. She looks strict and cold, coming off as intimidating to most. I didn't know she was actually a very humorous and Kind lady under her strict mask until I married Sebastian. She prefers me to call her granny.

Sebastian wouldn't hurt Granny, but he was pretty determined to marry Ava. Besides, I didn't know they couldn't get married when I asked that of him, knowing I was ruining their chance.

I'm not innocent in this, either.

But it doesn't matter now. With the divorce, everything is put back to how it was supposed to be. And 1 can finally put all this behind me, too. It's a tremendous relief.

Lilith stares at me with utter shock, then darts her eyes at Aurora. She is not used to the new me. Sebastian used to be the center of my world. Not anymore.