Chapter 64

064 A Smart Snake

Scarlett’s POV

When I woke up, everything was dark. For a moment, I thought it was still at night, only to see that I’m in a dark room when my eyes got used to the darkness.

My mind is like a mush, and it’s adjusting even slower than my eyes as if someone. injected fog into my brain.

What happened? Where am I? I was in a car…? The last thing I could remember was Ava’s scared eyes.

Ava!

My memory of last night rushes into my mind as that name wakes them up, also is waking up is a throbbing pain in my temples. I frown, trying to rub my temples, only

realize that my arms are tied to the arms of a wooden chair.

Now I remember.

I didn’t want to go out to meet Ava when I got her message. She never reaches out to me, ever. She has got an army to do that if she ever needs me. Nor was there anything for us to talk about. The last time she “talked” to me, she showed the video of Sebastian when he confessed his feelings toward her, thinking Ava was the little girl he saved.

I replied with a sticker of rolling eyes, but Ava instantly replied – [I can get Dad to let you go, if you give Seb back to me.]

Then before I could even reply, she sent another message: [Now can we talk?]

I was tempted.

a request easily, not even for Ava. But

papers right in my hand. I didn’t trust

[Fine, where are you?]

long string of instructions directing me to a car stopped parked with its butt stuck in a narrow alley. I stopped far from it, struggling to run immediately, but then

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064 A Smart Snake

  1. me.

that was when a pair of

me so many times she still has new ways to do it! God damn it! I knew she was a fucking liar, but I really thought her desire for Sebastian was genuine. I never thought the spoiled little princess, the one who knew only

just don’t know what more Ava could possibly want from me. What’s she isn’t getting from her army that she has to

“Scar!”

a dark corner, Ava’s voice

is letting in nearly no light. It’s either super dark out there, or the window doesn’t

hasty, scared whisper raises, “You

God? Ava is not using her mean face, meaning there is someone

  1. US.

is this, Ava? Where am I?” I ask in a lower voice than her. I’m not sure why she’s keeping her voice low, but I’d rather not test it

don’t know!” Ava hisses back, “I’m a victim in

I roll my eyes, remember that she can’t see, “except you

to me here, and I’m deciding whether to tell the police about

I have no other place to go. She would call the police when she notice that I didn’t go home last night. The question is,

My phone!

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