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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-"

the study through video," Lucas's solution comes

me red-handed, I'm just a daughter sneaking around

won't let

our discussion. The party started at dusk, and realizing I couldn't 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

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room

it, and if anything goes wrong, I will crash the party and create

everyone.

is highly likely to be at the party. Actually that's a certain yes. I have never seen Ava hosting a party without him. And if anyone

knows me too

Lucas 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 knows - and I think he did whenever Ava

his study open. She wouldn't

gloves before turning

Same old trick from ten years ago?

text Adrian. That's

- or he wouldn't 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 opened his safe like he

of journalists come in- they are the best detectives. They follow stories - lies - their whole life, and sometimes they have to deal with cases with much softer evidence than

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