Chapter 74

074 Platonic Love

Scarlett’s POV

The building’s structure is like a hotel. The elevator is designed in the center, with two lines of small rooms going around it. We were in one of the rooms on the inner lines, and the light we saw came through the room on the outer circle.

I didn’t know this until Liam Ryan dragged both Ava and me out of the room, through a pitch–dark hallway, to a huge hole in the center of the building.

The half–built elevator shaft is like the enormous mouth of a monster lurking in the dark, waiting for us to drop in.

The back of our chairs are inches away from the edge. I dare not to move, turn, or even peek at the abyss behind me, and I’m already getting dizzy from acrophobia.

I’m going to puke…

“Scared?” Liam Ryan smirks at me, “You weren’t looking so pale when I pulled you up from right that hole behind you, with that pulley.”

I turn my head slightly, only to see what I can only call a middle school student craft homework. It’s just a few wheels with a rope! I can’t believe this psycho pulled me up with that thing! He really is crazy.

Ava burst into tears.

horrifying laugh, “She was

thank him for putting

here again after today, for different reasons though. I-” Liam Ryan’s eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they freeze in a direction. A wide grin crawls onto his face slowly, to an almost bizarre width, “You are finally here.

Sebastian.

but his collar is

here for me, but the moment I

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the woods. He was just like this–wearing his tiny, children’s suits all serious, his face covered in sweat and mud, but none of that could outshine the smile on his

lost kitten is

out of me when he repeated those exact words, to

crying, too, giving no reaction to his words, but wiggles forward with pleading eyes as if

hey, hey, don’t move! It’s dangerous,” Sebastian calms her, and even at such a time, his tone is gentle

nails his eagle eyes on Sebastian, and feeling that,

eyes landed on me for

stop my tears,

choose as if that would be a hard decision for him. The tricky part, is

grin spread on

Liam Ryan walks toward Ava, pulling out a knife. Instantly Sebastian hurries up, but Liam Ryan bursts into a shout: “Stop right there!

stops where he is, his hands up in the air: “I won’t move, but you got it wrong. She’s not

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