Chapter 15

015 He Is Bad News

Scarlett’s POV

Working on my script for the whole day, I was drowning in an unfamiliar sense of satisfaction. I have put ” family” as the core of my life for so long, that I forgot the fun of living for myself.

When I finally put it down, I almost missed my date with Aurora. Hurrying out of her place, I got to Nightingale 10 minute

to 8. I prefer being early.

I wish I didn’t.

Nightingale is the biggest nightclub in town. Best place for entertainment for any and everyone, so long as you can afford a drink. We used to come here all the time in college, enjoying its “safe hour” for a little alcohol and a lot of fun.

8 pm to midnight, four hours of light, fun music with drinks and chats and snacks. Safe hour. Because after midnight, the heart–pumping DJ would get up there and boil this place into a crazy porridge. Drugs, sex…You name it.

But tonight, the safe hour is not safe, for me.

I ordered a non–alcohol at the bar. I regret coming in the moment the bartender shoots me that weird glance. I should have waited for Aurora, outside. It might be “safe hour“, but it’s still a nightclub.

And trouble found me even before I could get my drink.

too sweet a smile, a young man – a boy – scooches up to me almost

legs, “Boss wants you.

out between us. He has no sense of a proper manner and I have

the stool to

your boss?” I grip my phone tight, not sure if 1 should call for help. This is not the sa women, not to mention a pregnant

then turns his head as a hint.

Gabriel fucking Fuller.

t place for

trouble with me, I wouldn’t be safe

son, and Ava’s only big brother. And I’m pretty

blind when it comes to her. He would scold me without caring whether I was the

But Gabriel?

her real

tries

much as shoots a frown in my direction, he would come for “revenge“. He broke my toys. that I refused to lend to Ava; he destroyed my homework and told the teachers that he

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under the same roof with me, he would spread rumors about how I cheated my way through anything I did

But it doesn’t mean I wasn’t suffering with the shadow called Gabriel over my

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