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-"

the study through video," Lucas's

they catch me red-handed, I'm just a daughter sneaking around her adopted father's study, but if

won't let them catch

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 life. Lucas will go into the study in my place, try out the password, and look for anything that doesn't belong in

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room

it, and if anything goes wrong, I will crash the party and create a scene so Lucas can

everyone.

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

knows me too

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 pulled this before, he wouldn't really care. But entering his treasured study is a

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

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

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

story coming up,] I text Adrian. That's our code if the password was

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. He either made up a new story for me to see, or he would change into a new story after I opened his

and moves leave traces. That's where Adrian and his army of journalists come in- they are the best detectives. They