She Accepted Divorce He Panicked (Scarlett and Sebastian)
222 His Little Queen

"Damian Vanderbilt!" Scar exclaims in anger, "I can't believe this! This is a new low, even for you!"

Behind the corner stands the man she called out, on his face are embarrassment, surprise and... a faint shade of anger -- anger at his dear brother-in-law who just threw him under the bus so his dear sister wouldn't lose it seeing her ex abducting her friend's daughter. Talking about how messed up your original family can be.

"Lilith told you no, right?" Scar folds her arms in front of her chest, glaring at Damian like a pissed cat mama, "Is that why you are hiding out here?!"

"Welll... not exactly..." The man rubs his hair with an apologetic smile. Lilith didn't tell him "no". She didn't pick up his million phone calls at all, nor did Scar. "This is purely a coincidence, but I'm so happy to see you, Alice--"

Scar narrows her eyes and he quickly apologizes: "I mean, Scarlett—"

"It's Scar, and I'm happier without you, thanks." Scar snorts coldly, having no intention of continuing the conversation, "I'm not your Alice, nor is the little girl that belongs to Lilith. You want to see her? Arrange an appointment with Lilith, or next time I'll call the police on you!" Waiting for a fierce fight from the man, Scar is surprised when Damian just smiles gently...which gives her no satisfaction since she literally just threatened the guy!

"Jerk!" Scar rolls her eyes, at loss of how to handle a guy who smiles at her threatens.

She doesn't really know what happened between Lilith and Damian, but no way it was Lilith's fault. Not to mention it was this guy who deemed that she wasn't "worthy" of the valuable last name of the Vanderbilts. But Damian Vanderbilt wouldn't let her have her peace.

"Now that you are back in the city, I thought maybe we could catch up?" Damian chases up to her with a cautious tone and a bright smile, "I'm really sorry about what happened five years ago, but I can explain-"

"I don't care about your explanation, nor about claiming your last name," Scar scoffs, her eyes indifferent and sarcastic like knives, "I'm not your express way to Lilith, save it!"

"It's not about Lilith," Damian explains in a haste, "I never meant to hurt you, I swear! I was just trying to protect you-"

"By taking Ava's side against me? Or by keeping my parents away from me for that little fortune of yours?" Scar pulls to a sudden halt, glaring at Damian in his eyes, "I understand it's upsetting that a random girl just pops up in your life to claim what you deem yours, but you have no right to deny me my own parent!"

Yes, parent. At the end of the day, the only Vanderbilt Scar can trust is her dead mother. No way Johnny Vanderbilt knows anything about her, especially after all the farce five years ago. He did reach out, but reaching out once doesn't exactly say a father's dying desire to meet his long-lost daughter.

Sure she was infamous at that time, going into prison and all, but still.

"I-you are right," Damian opens his mouth to explain, only to stop and apologize, "I have no such right, and you have every right to be upset about that, I get it! What happened to you was my fault, both times! I owe you and I want to make amends--" ""Don't bother!"

"Don't you want to know what happened to mom?" Damian blurts and Scar stops, but not turning around.

She does want to know. But at the price of letting the horrible people she cut out of her life at the price of her everything?

Looking up, Scar sees Silco playing

with Alice not too far away. The man has one knee on the ground as if ax knight paying respect to his little queen. His tall black hat is crookedly worn on Alice's head, and in giggles, Alice uses both of her hands on the hat to prevent the hat from gulping up her whole head.

At that moment, Scar feels like she's looking at the most beautiful picture on the face of the earth.

The hell with the Fullers and the Vanderbilts and her blind ex. She doesn't even know Silco's real name, and she only gets to see Alice once in a while, but if she gets to have them as her family, she can even put down her revenge.

"Who's that?" Damian frowns at

Silco, his long-legs charging over

already. Alice is his daughter, it just has to be. No way Lilith would fall in love with someone else so fast after him to to have a daughter this old. He hasn't dared to bother Lilith because he wanted to give her room, and now this guy that came out of

nowhere just squeezed his head into

Scar's life and put his hand on

Alice's head?!

Scar blocks him coldly: "He is family!"

That one word halts Damian's stride.

"Family...?" Damian mumbles,

frowning only to purse his lips before the curses burst out of him, "Scar, I know I haven't been a good

brother to you, but I made pet

mistakes because I thought I y

protecting you. You don't have to

forgive me, but you shouldn't let

your anger against me drive you into trusting some sketchy man that--"

"He is not sketchy!" Scar flips, the rush of anger surprises both her and Damian, "I told you he is family, and I won't tolerate it if you keep attacking him!"

She didn't even trust Silco a few days ago, but he has been nicer to her than most of her so called "family", especially today when he came to her needs so fast after a phone call.

"Scar, I--"

"Sorry to bother but..." Silco's voice raises behind Scar, cutting off Damian's worried tone, "is this man giving you trouble?"

Scar turns around and gives Silco a faint smile: "It's okay. He's just leaving."

Silco's cold blue eyes land on Damian.

"D-did-I-I was--?!" Damian stammers because his lips refuse to work when he is shocked fand rozen as he stares at Silco, "I mean--"

"Son, if a lady tells you to leave her alone, you obey," Silco ignores Damian's mumble, scolding coldly.

"Shall we, princess?" Silco bows a little as he gestures to his car with his cane. Scar grabs Alice's hand, and Silco follows them like a guardian protecting his little ladies safely, leaving Damian frozen where he was without another look.