She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

015 He Is Bad News

015 He Is Bad News Scarlett's POV

Working on my script for the whole day, I was drowning in an unfamiliar sense of satisfaction. I have put " family" as the core of my life for so long, that I forgot the fun of living for myself.

When I finally put it down, I almost missed my date with Aurora. Hurrying out of her place, I got to Nightingale 10 minute to 8. I prefer being early.

I wish I didn't.

Nightingale is the biggest nightclub in town. Best place for entertainment for any and everyone, so long as you can afford a drink. We used to come here all the time in college, enjoying its "safe hour" for a little alcohol and a lot of fun. 8 pm to midnight, four hours of light, fun music with drinks and chats and snacks. Safe hour. Because after midnight, the heart-pumping DJ would get up there and boil this place into a crazy porridge. Drugs, sex... You name it. But tonight, the safe hour is not safe, for me.

I ordered a non-alcohol at the bar. I regret coming in the moment the bartender shoots me that weird glance. I should have waited for Aurora, outside. It might be "safe hour", but it's still a nightclub.

And trouble found me even before I could get my drink.

"Miss Fuller?" With too sweet a smile, a young man - a boy - scooches up to me almost pasting his body

-to my legs, "Boss wants you. Please."

I frown at him squeezing distance out between us. He has no sense of a proper manner and I have to

the stool to

if 1 should call for help. This

at me, then turns his head as a hint. I follow his

Gabriel fucking Fuller.

t place for

really shouldn't have come tonight. But then again, if he wants trouble with me, I

Jack's only son, and Ava's only big brother. And I'm pretty sure to him, Ava

so much that he is blind when it comes to her. He would scold me without caring whether I

But Gabriel?

her real

not decent as Sebastian tries to be, he is a

would come for "revenge". He broke my toys. that I refused to lend to Ava; he destroyed my homework and

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me, he would spread rumors about how I cheated my way through anything

doesn't mean I wasn't suffering with the shadow called Gabriel

most is, he couldn't

help!] Code red is Gabriel for me, Aurora,