Chapter 361

"No need, just leave me alone."

"Alright, alright.” The manager quickly backed off.

Scarlett slumped back into her seat and grabbed a bottle of liquor, ready to drown

her guilt.

Steven snatched the bottle out of her hand. "What are you doing?"

"Leave me alone! This is all my fault," she muttered, still consumed by self-blame.

The fear from earlier lingered, and now she teetered between anxiety and drunkenness, reaching again for the bottle.

Scarlett's cheeks were flushed, her eyes hazy as she gazed longingly at the drink. She stretched her hand toward Steven, trying to wrestle it back.

Holding the bottle out of her reach, Steven stared at the empty bottles on the table, dumbfounded. "You've already had so much. That's enough!"

do!" She shoved Steven aside and called out to a passing server.

close behind, immediately countering, "Ignore her.

trying to cling to any scraps of clarity, but the pounding

trying to soothe her. "Miss Sanders won't

fault! Why did I take her


tried to chug it, but Steven intercepted it again.

back and gulped half of it down in one go, slamming the

same bottle and downed

and ordered two more bottles, taking one and guzzling it down immediately. "I'm going to get drunk

bright red, and he

"Scarlett Larson, you idiot!"

jerk! Why

later, the two of them stumbled out of the Morning Star Bar, swaying so badly it

of his friends who finally helped them into a car and drove them

on the bed and tried to take Steven away, Scarlett

no other choice, the friend left them

close to his that it stirred something inside him. The heat of

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