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 solution

daughter

won't let them catch

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

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room

party and create a scene so Lucas can get back into

everyone.

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

me too

at home, it's a nothing misdemeanor. Even if Jack Fuller knows - and I think he

open. She wouldn't dare to

a pair of white gloves before turning

tried twice. So Jack Fuller changed it. Seriously? Same old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might be the same old

Adrian. That's our

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

forced to make a move, and moves leave traces. That's where Adrian and his army of journalists come in- they are the best detectives. They follow stories - lies - their whole life, and sometimes they have to deal with cases