She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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Scarlett's POV

"So what did he took from your mom?" Lucas asks.

"Well..."

Lucas narrows his eyes: "Do you not know what it is?"

No. I didn't go through with Sebastian's "deal", and in the end, I only got to know that Jack Fuller took something.

Damn that jerk.

"Then how is it different if I'm going instead of you?" Lucas lets out a

chuckle, seeing through my hesitation, "How were you even going to look for it though?"

"Well..."

"Yep, say no more," Lucas concludes our conversation, realizing I have no good answer to his questions, "I'm not letting a pregnant woman climbing second-floor balconies to look for a maybe."

"I can sort of tell Jack Fuller's things apart from something that doesn't belong to his office-"

video," Lucas's solution comes faster than my

I'm just a daughter sneaking around her adopted father's study, but

let them

change his mind, we came up with our new plan. We still move half an hour into the party - where the air just heats up and the whole house comes to life. Lucas will go into the study in my place, try out the password, and

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room

the party and

everyone.

likely to be at the party. Actually that's a certain yes. I have

knows me

mumbles as he checks the study's door lock - it's on. Though pushing it a bit by hosting a party at home, it's a nothing misdemeanor. Even if Jack Fuller

to leave his study open. She wouldn't dare to even go

first," Luncas bends over the safe, putting on a pair of white gloves before turning the dial with just two

tried twice. So Jack Fuller changed it. Seriously? Same old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might be the same old fox, but I'm not falling for that

up,] I text Adrian. That's our code if the

need to change it. It would be less suspicious if I found the same story repetitively. He either made up a new story for me to see, or he would change into a new story after I

the best detectives. They follow stories - lies - their whole life, and sometimes they have to deal with