She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

074 Platonic Love Scarlett's POV

The building's structure is like a hotel. The elevator is designed in the center, with two lines of small rooms going around it. We were in one of the rooms on the inner lines, and the light we saw came through the room on the outer circle.

I didn't know this until Liam Ryan dragged both Ava and me out of the room, through a pitch-dark hallway, to a huge hole in the center of the building.

The half-built elevator shaft is like the enormous mouth of a monster lurking in the dark, waiting for us to drop in.

The back of our chairs are inches away from the edge. I dare not to move, turn, or even peek at the abyss behind me, and I'm already getting dizzy from acrophobia.

I'm going to puke...

"Scared?" Liam Ryan smirks at me, "You weren't looking so pale when I pulled you up from right that hole behind you, with that pulley."

I turn my head slightly, only to see what I can only call a middle school student craft homework. It's just a few wheels with a rope! I can't believe this psycho pulled me up with that thing! He really is crazy. Ava burst into tears.

"Ohh, she remembers," Liam Ryan lets out a horrifying laugh, "She was well awake when I got her up."

Should I thank him for putting me out for that?

different reasons though. I-" Liam Ryan's eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they freeze in a direction. A wide grin

seems. He is not exactly panting, but his collar is

me, but the moment I see a familiar face

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slowly, and I feel like I'm back to that day, when I was

none of that could outshine the smile on his face when he reached his hand over me, and he said- "Whose lost kitten is

when he repeated

forward with pleading

hey, hey, don't move! It's dangerous," Sebastian calms her, and even at such a time, his

nails his eagle eyes on Sebastian, and feeling that, Sebastian adds:

his eyes landed on me

stop my tears, turning away with

choose as if that would be a hard decision for him. The tricky part, is how Sebastian

frantic grin spread on Liam Ryan's

you love your mistress more after all," Liam Ryan walks toward Ava, pulling out a knife. Instantly Sebastian

his hands up in the air: "I won't move, but you got it wrong. She's not my mistress! I just don't want an innocent to die because of a