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!"

She shoved Steven aside and called out to a passing server. "Bring me two more

close behind, immediately countering, "Ignore her. She's

to any scraps of clarity, but the pounding music only made her

alright, Scarlett," Steven said, trying to

did I take her to that horrible man?" Scarlett burst into


another bottle and tried to chug it, but Steven intercepted it again. "Do you really need to drink?

bottle back and gulped half of it down in one go, slamming the bottle onto the table and letting out

same bottle and

the bartender and ordered two more bottles, taking one

turned bright red, and he looked

"Scarlett Larson, you idiot!"

Why are you stealing

hour later, the two of them stumbled out of the Morning Star Bar,

to support Scarlett, but it was one of his friends who finally helped them into

friend placed Scarlett on the bed and

the friend

delicate face was so close to his that it stirred something inside him. The heat of the alcohol blurred his thoughts,

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