227 Z, X, and V

"The gentleman on the second floor".

Sebastian's plate doesn't even have a number, but just one letter - Z.

It's unlikely that he could see and spot Ava from that huge window on the second floor, but Ava feels like Sebastian glanced at her coldly when he raised his plate just now. Wronged tears fill Ava's eyes.

She should have been up there. She was supposed to be the queen of the Knights, and she got her title fair and square. But now that man put all his sweet words and promises behind his head, and looks at her with only coldness.

[Sebastian, No.86 is me,] Ava types in her phone, but hesitates when her finger hovers over "send".

One word after another, Ava deletes the message, and sends [Sebastian, I'm at an auction today] instead.

No reply.

Holding the phone, Ava looks up at Sebastian. The man sits there with a straight face, his eye never even dart to the table where his phone blinks.

Biting her lips, Ava holds her phone to her ear after dialing Sebastian's number. Anger rushing from her waist all the way to her head, shouting at her to demand an answer from the guy who should play her husband without considering possible consequences. The dialing tone doesn't even stop before the host hammers down yet again: "110,000 dollars from Mr. X!"

way to the middle window on the second floor. Its curtain just stops moving, revealing Scar sitting on the red velvet armchair like a queen on her throne, the plate in her

Scar relies on. The next second Ava tastes blood on her tongue, but jealousy burns

ring? She doesn't even

twice!" The host

Sebastian, only to see the man staring at Scar without

with a painfully slow move, and right before Ava burst

with his hammer, "No. 86 calls

is sure that Scar saw her. The cold ice queen lands her indifferent eyes right on Ava. Even at such a distance, Ava

back of her

she's grabbing onto the last chance with Sebastian. The ring belongs to her! Sebastian made it for

rising up like the sentencing

shouts again. Every of his shouts turns the audience altogether, and this time to

sides, Johnny Vanderbilt's famous

He really came!" Ava exclaims, pulling Jack

staring

up in the same neighborhood, they went to the same school, and they fell in fove with the same woman, but that's where

taking off his hat to his chest to give a bow to Scar. Scar rolls her eyes and looks away, and the

than I thought," Jack Fuller mumbles, "I thought he could at least

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