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 comes faster

red-handed, I'm just a daughter sneaking around her adopted

let

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

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room

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

everyone.

that's a certain yes. I have never

knows me too

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

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

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

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

That's our code if the password

be less suspicious if I found the same story repetitively. He either made up a new story for me to see, or he

traces. That's where Adrian and his army of journalists come in- they are the best detectives. They follow stories - lies - their whole