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

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

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 in my place, try out the password, and

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room

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

everyone.

because Sebastian 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

on. Though pushing it a bit by hosting a party at home, it's a nothing misdemeanor. Even if Jack Fuller knows -

study open.

white gloves before turning the dial with just two

So Jack Fuller changed it. Seriously? Same old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might

text Adrian. That's our code if the password was

- 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

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