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?

have to come up here again after today, for different reasons though. I-" Liam Ryan's eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they freeze in a direction. A wide grin crawls

it seems. He is not exactly panting, but

but the moment I see a familiar face still activates

074 Platonic Love

+25 BONUS

to that day, when I was just a seven-year-old, lost in the woods. He was just

could outshine the smile on his face when he reached his hand

he repeated those exact words, to

but wiggles forward with pleading eyes as if that could get

calms her, and even at such a time, his tone is

eyes on Sebastian, and feeling

on me

my tears, turning away

would be a hard decision for him. The tricky part, is how Sebastian could.convince him that I'm

ugly, frantic grin spread

Ava, pulling out a knife. Instantly Sebastian hurries up, but Liam Ryan bursts into a shout: "Stop right there! Or

move, but you got it