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-"

Lucas's solution comes faster than my hard-came

daughter sneaking around her adopted father's study,

won't let

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

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room

the party and create a scene so Lucas can get back into my room -

everyone.

Sebastian is highly likely to be at the party. Actually that's a certain yes. I have never seen Ava

knows me

a bit by hosting a party at home, it's a nothing misdemeanor.

to leave his study open. She

safe, putting on a pair of white gloves before turning the dial with just two fingers, "okay, I don't think

old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might be the

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

password, meaning whatever story he intended me to look at in the safe is no longer the same - or he wouldn't need to change it. It would be less suspicious if I found the same story repetitively.

Adrian and his army of journalists come in- they are the best detectives. They follow stories - lies - their whole life, and sometimes they have