She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

179 The War

Damian's POV She knows.

Scarlett knew that she was my baby sister. She knew I was looking for her, and she watched me going after the wrong girl, probably even helped in that. She knows everything and she chose to keep them secrets. That realization aches me to my core.

I can't even begin to comprehend how she would hate me so much when I'm basically a stranger to her. So much so that she wouldn't even come home to wealth, fame, and her own father?

I thought Ava was Alice for like a day. But the more investigation comes back about their past, the clearer it got: Ava was the favored, the spoiled, the bully, and the liar. A stupid one no less. All this time she has been trying all she could to get my attention. She comes off as the tamed daughter, even with a lousy story about how she was adopted, too.

Even if I can overlook Scarlett's adoption history, and the fact that Scarlett appeared conveniently after Mom's car crash in North Dakota, I wouldn't have ruled her out just for her purple eyes.

Those were Mom's eyes. I should have suspected something the first time we met.

I didn't expose any of that because Jack Fuller is not stupid. He is the opposite. He is the most crafty I have seen in years, and he is targeting me.

lousy, but what shocked me was how Jack

blood stain on

unlikely: that Ava Fuller could be my sister, even with Scarltt right beside

a move from a fox like Jack Fuller. It IS a trap. Too obvious a trap. It's almost like he wants to lure me in the wrong direction, but with a maze designed by a three-year-old,

a win, people overlook the process for the results.

the happiness of getting to the truth, and anger at his little

moment I realized that, I

into his past. He has

city only for the past twenty years. If he has nothing to hide, the right move would be demanding a huge check for raising my little princess. Even if he was worried about the mistreatment over the years, it's not like he physically hurt Scar in any way I could sue. So if there is any reason driving him to pull such a trick, it comes from

"maze" exposed the right direction in front of

fake her files as if she had been in this city since forever. He was IN North

he found an orphan with "gold blood" and he

that he might be involved

any legitimate evidence, but I can't imagine any other reason why he would go to such lengths to