She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

138 Scar's Pilgrimage Scarlett's POV

It can't be Lucas if we are going through the door instead of the window. It has to be me. Even if anyone sees me, it won't be a crime.

"What took you so long?!" I hiss at him when he drags me to a dark corner. In his hand is an old bronze key of a weird shape. The gate of the villa uses a fingerprint lock, but Jack Fuller's study still uses one of those old-school locks with a complicated physical key. What's he hiding in there?

"This kind of lock is very expensive, one lock with only one key, and the key can't be duplicated," Seeing my confusion, Lucas explains, "And to answer your question, it's because you gave me the wrong password for the phone."

"What?! It's not Ava's birthday?!" I exclaim, "I swear I have seen him using that."

"Well, maybe it was, but now it isn't," Lucas has a weird look on his face, "do you

want to know what it is?"

"It's okay," I wave my hand, "I don't plan on stealing his phone all the time!"

I have never stolen anything in my life. I was so nervous that I could barely keep my attention on whatever "conversation" we had. Never again!

Lucas continues, looking

shoot him a weird look. Then why

me to tell you if you said you didn't care, and not to tell you if you still care about him," Lucas grins at me mischievously, "I don't know what happened between you two but...

Never again? Not after one

it is 15 minutes for you," Lucas glances around with a resigned look, "But I

breath and come out of the corner. I

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most forgiving person, and to think he

it's a showdown between

entering part was

study is huge with a complicated layout. A thick carpet with ancient patterns covers the whole floor, several floor-to-ceiling bookshelves around the room. One of them is behind the huge desk in the middle. By that

his study countless times, but only a handful without Jack Fuller in it, and never before at night. I'm only returning something, yet I feel like Jack Fuller will brage in at any moment

might not be a monster, but he didn't

know if I'm feeling anything about it. I was too nervous to think, but what does a password mean? It's not like Sebastian knew