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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

a daughter sneaking

won't let

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 that study. I will watch

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room

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

everyone.

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

me

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

open. She

putting on a pair of white gloves before turning the dial with

old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might be the same old fox, but I'm not falling for that

text Adrian. That's our

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

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 with much softer evidence than what the

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