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!

continues,

shoot him a weird look.

if you still care about him," Lucas grins at me mischievously, "I don't know what happened between you two but... pity

the necklace case tight in my hand. What did I say? Never again? Not after one minute and I'm breaking and entering again! I'm not

texted your sister to meet in five minutes by the lake. Even if she returns right after she gets there, it is 15 minutes for you," Lucas glances around with a resigned look,

take a deep breath and come

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trouble. Jack Fuller is not the most forgiving person, and to think he

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the room. One of them is behind the huge desk in the middle. By that bookshelf is a painting hanging on the wall. Behind it is the

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not be a monster, but he didn't leave a

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 like Sebastian knew I would steal his phone, so it wasn't for me. I doubt anyone besides Ava could have