Chapter 69

069 Sebastian’s Love Scarlett’s POV “I’m sorry for your loss, but this is the first time I’m hearing about this,” I talk to the guy, and taking a glimpse into his sad story, find it easier to talk in a sympathy tone,” May I know her name?”

He shoots me a glare, but he grumbles: “Sparrow. Sparrow Ryan.”

“That’s a cute name,” I try to smile at him. I actually feel like I do know that name. My brain stores a glimpse of that name because it was so special. But I can’t remember what happened to her. It wasn’t registered anywhere near Sebastian though.

If her death had anything to do with Sebastian, I would know. I picked up everything about him like drops of treasures.

“Wait, I know her!” Ava suddenly takes a surprised gasp, “She jumped off a building for Justin Roland! She was his stalking fan-”

Did her energy–lacking brain malfunction? All words out of Ava are products of serious calculation, always. I have never seen her blurting things so recklessly against her innocent act.

She realized her mistake even before she finished that sentence, but the word ” stalking” was already out. The guy launches up and slaps her across the face so hard that her head turns to the side.

“She’s not a stalker!” He growls at her like an angry bear. Ava turns her head back toward him slowly, her eyes open wide with utter shock. No one in her life has ever dared such a thing. But what did she expect from a guy who was ready to murder?

Ava starts a low, wronged sob. She tries to stop it by biting her lips, but water still pours out of her eyes. The guy raises his hand at her again out of frustration and she instantly flinches, but this time his land doesn’t fall. He paces around in obvious anxiety, mumbling strings of curses as Ava cries silently.

Justin Roland is one of the most expensive actors signed under Knight Entertainment, one of the subsidiaries of Sebastian’s family empire. He only turned 20 this year, and he already started in more than three movies, let alone his long list of works as side characters since he was a kid.

So his fan jumped off a building, and Sebastian intervened? If he did, he never told me. I guess he didn’t tell me everything, though I was his wife.

009 Sebastian’s Love +25 BONUS But shouldn’t he be going after Roland’s loved ones, if that was the case?

I dare not to ask questions, so I start with a cautious assumption: “Whatever Sebastian did, we can-”

“He didn’t do anything!” The guy bursts at me, his whole body shaking, “His employee manipulated a teenage girl, and he used his lawyers to bully! Just because he is rich! Just because he can, so he ignores lives perishing in front of him! He WILL have a taste of the desperation I felt on the same night last year!”

That’s why he keeps checking time. He was recreating the day of his daughter’s death.

Though it was a long walk from his tragic story to Sebastian, I would have gone after Roland if I were in his shoes, but I do understand the desperation of facing a powerful like Sebastian and Jack Fuller. With money and power, they wrote my as how they wanted, and I could barely put up a fight.

fate “It’s time...” The guy stares at his phone, his eyes obsessive to say the least, “I have been waiting for this moment, and he will know what regret tastes like!”

“You-” Ava panics as he starts dialing numbers, her eyes dart at me yet her tone is genuinely timid this time out of fear, “you don’t plan to push Scar off the building...do you?”

Thanks, sis, for the reminder.

“Do you really think you get to live after witnessing him murdering me?!” I finally lost my patience. There is no talking this guy around, and the best we could do now is to stall, not urging him to start the kill! I seriously doubt if Ava has nothing but air in that big head of hers!

Ava’s lips shiver, her watery deer eyes dart between me and the guy, apparently still leaning toward trusting the word of a man who abducted two women in the middle of the night for his daughter whose death has little to do with them.

“Patience, princess,” The guy gives her an evil smirk, “she might be his wife, but you are not that Innocent either. You are his mistress, aren’t you? I wouldn’t have followed you first if you two weren’t together all the time!”

Ava was right about this being Karma alright.

“I don’t know who he loves more between you two, but I figured it out,” The guy puts his phone by his ear as he gives Ava an ugly, cruel grin, “Dear Sebastian gets to be the one picking which of you is going to die tonight.”

My heart drops, and Ava’s lips curve.

“Sebastian Knight? Do you remember me?” The guy talks into his phone, “I’m Sparrow Ryan’s father, Liam Ryan.”