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,

him a weird look. Then why ask

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... pity for

the key and 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

gets there, it is 15 minutes for you," Lucas glances around with a resigned look, "But I can do it if you are

I can do it," I take a deep breath and come out of the corner. I don't want

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think he put the highest security in his safe and study, it can only

a showdown between

part was actually

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 bookshelf is a painting hanging

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 and arrest

be a monster, but he didn't leave a father's image in my

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 access to his phone,