She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Scarlett's POV

After that one bombing sentence, Adrian did not continue but started leading the way to his car.

He has been shooting me observing looks all the way even after he started driving. I sneakily take longer breaths, waiting patiently for him to conduct his "mental status evaluation" on me. I don't want him to worry about me, and I can handle this. I need him to know. "Lucas told me everything," Adrian finally says, eying me in the rare mirror, "How have you been holding up? I'm actually impressed that you pulled yourself together after only three days."

I frown leeringly: "Please don't tell me that the boss of the Dunn empire has been squatting downstairs of my hotel for the past three days..." Adrian lets out a laugh, the worry in his eyes faints a little.

"I have eyes on your personal driver, that's all," Adrian gives me a harmless smile, "By the way, I'm not the only one doing that, apparently." "Who else?!" I frown. I understand that Adrian is doing this out of concern for my safety, but I don't want attention like this from anyone else. "You will know soon, and I'll leave that one to you," Adrian grumbles, looking bothered, "I'm behind any decision you make, of course." "You know who it is--?"

"That's not the most urging matter," Adrian averts the topic in the most awkward way, "aren't you curious about your new family?"

I grin at him -- he was the one throwing me a hook, and now he is the one getting impatient first!

found something, didn't you?" I shoot him a glowing smirk. Lucas kept him posted about everything. And with Adrian's resources, he could find a lot more about them than what I can in three days locked in a hotel room. And I know he wouldn't

He takes a deep breath, trying

An arrogant, dark, evil

of women around?" That's all I can think about after that brief night I spent knowing him. Well, Ava might not count, considering he might have been kind to her because of Mom's necklace.

an evil mastermind!"

he's to be your brother, not your husband, right?" With sarcasm, Adrian gives me a harmless smile. But he looks less worried now, "You sound very

if I want such a brother, and I'm sure I don't want such a husband for

32, car accident," Adrain recites, glancing at me, "...in

the answer, but still, when I hears about it, it's like a heavy blown to my

I AM a Vanderbilt. I was with Mom when we got into a car accident when Jack Fuller took me! Not

with their six-year-old son, Damian. They searched for the daughter for months, and Johnny Vanderbilt never remarried for his late wife." Huh. That's a consolation. If the reason unknown. But even if a small percentage of that reason is out of the love for my mom, it's