She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked

Scarlett's POV

Her scream soon attracts attention.

The first one responding is Sebastian. I think he came over even before I threw her into the water, because he jumped after her almost instantly, and pulled the struggling Ava to the up. She coughs in panic, keeping that horrifying cry up this whole time. But as good an actor as she is, the panic she puts on her face is nowhere near the panic I'm feeling inside.

I pushed Ava Fuller, the delicate princess of the Fuller, into a freezing cold lake, with the witness being my own husband.

The case of my crime could be closed and sentenced already.

I dare not imagine the anger of Jack Fuller, the disappointment of Anne Fuller, the vicious revenge from Gabriel and...Damian Vanderbilt. I don't even know how to face Sebastian at this moment. "What's going on here?" Damian Vanderbilt's august voice demands, and I freeze in fear.

"I'm sorry!" Ava bursts into a louder cry, sobbing at him as she "tried and failed" to stand up, "Damian, I lost Mom's necklace! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! I tried to stop her, but she was too fast!!!"

What?! I watch in utter shock as the scene gets off the rail at a speed beyond my imagination. Damian Vanderbilt's face darkens visibly at her words, and his fiery eyes dart at me.

I shiver automatically, but to my surprise, Sebastian stands up and blocks that ray of condamnation. He came to her rescue, he took off his suit to wrap around her, but he is now standing in front of me, against my mafia boss of a brother.

"You need to calm down--" Sebastian says, but Damian Vanderbilt already threw himself over, shouting: "Don't you tell me to calm down!"

His fist had already landed on Sebastian's face.

I gasp in horror, tears bursting out. I dash to Sebastian but he stands up faster than I could reach him. "Stay away, Scar," He commands in haste, raising both his hands to Damian Vanderbilt, "I'm not fighting you! I know you are upset, and you can take it out on me! But if you want to solve the problem, then you need to talk."

Panting like an angry bear, Damian Vanderbilt pauses his attack. He just stands there, glaring at me.

"What, did, you, do?" He demands at me with every one of his words burning in flames. Sebastian follows his steps, hiding me behind him closely: "Scar, tell him what happened."

"I didn't do anything! I have never even touched that necklace!" I blurt, only to realize I shouldn't even know of such a necklace to begin with, "She came at me and I swung Ker off into the water, that's all that happened!"

"She tore the necklace off my neck!" Ava shrills with such sorrow that even my heart aches for it, "I shouldn't have worn it...I just wanted to feel close to my mother...I told her it's the only thing I can't share with her and she said she would rather destroy it than let me keep it..."

The quiet lakeshore has only Ava's devasted cry echoing around. Jack Fuller pulls Ava up in silence, hugging her tightly as she trembles in her wail. Anna Fuller is not with them. "She is lying!" I say in haste as the devil approaches with a murderous look, "I--"

"Did you know? That necklace belongs to Emma Vanderbilt, my late mother," Damian Vanderbilt cuts me off coldly, "who died with my two-year-old baby sister in her arms?"

"Yes..." I murmur. His cold voice makes me shiver.

"Did you know, that I'm here to look for my baby sister?" He presses further.

"Yes..." I answer with tears already twirling in my eyes.

"Did you know--!" Damian Vanderbilt says, only to stop himself when his voice twists out of shape. He takes a long breath to calm himself before he continues, "Did you know, that Ava tested positive in the DNA test as her?"

Only just now, "Yes, but--" I say, grabbing Sebastian's shirt to find courage.

But he is not letting me finish.

Nodding slowly with huge disappointment in his eyes, Damian Vanderbilt takes a step back, asking as if mumbling to himself: "Why do you hate me so much?"

Sebastian turns around to shoot me a quick glance.

I don't know how to answer that question.

I don't hate him. I'm afraid of him. I'm afraid of his cold decisions, his distant way of talking, his ruthless way of dealing with people he doesn't like. He is my biological brother, but we are living in two

different worlds.

I don't know how to enter his world.

He nail his eyes on me as if he has a ton to say, but in the end, he just turns and leaves me for Ava: "It's okay, baby doll. I will find Mom's necklace, even if I have to dry this lake."