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 at

shoot him a weird look. Then why ask at

if you still care about him," Lucas grins at me mischievously, "I

I say? Never again?

there, it

it," I take a deep breath and

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138 Scar's Pilgrimage

most forgiving person, and to think he put the highest security

a showdown

part was actually

thick carpet with ancient patterns covers the whole floor, several floor-to-ceiling bookshelves around the room. One of them is behind the huge

at night. I'm only returning something, yet I feel like Jack Fuller will brage in at any moment

but he didn't leave a father's image in

string of random characters. Putting them in, I finally hear what Lucas said to me earlier. Adrian doesn't want me to make the same mistake, but I don't know if I'm feeling anything about it. I was too nervous to think, but what does a password mean? It's not