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.

was lousy, but what shocked me was how Jack Fuller could back

Fuller, her fingerprint from the blood stain on Mom's necklace...a real, certified, positive DNA test

to prove a story so unlikely: that Ava Fuller could be my sister, even

too stupid 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

overlook the process

out "in hardship" that Scarlett was the real lost daughter, and hopefully in the happiness of getting to the truth, and anger at his little lie, I would

I realized

past. He has been

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

"maze" exposed the right direction in

if she had been in this city since forever. He was IN North Dakota when

assume that he found an orphan with "gold blood" and he took her home for his own daughter who needs to live off other's blood

the possibility that he might be

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