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.

remembers,” Liam Ryan lets out a horrifying laugh, “She was well awake when I got her

I thank him for putting me

eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they

Sebastian.

way up to the 17th floor, it seems. He is not exactly panting, but his collar is open, and his face is flushed with

here for me, but the moment I see a familiar face still activates

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lost in the woods. He was just like this–wearing his tiny, children’s suits

kitten is

out of me when he repeated those exact words, to

to his words, but wiggles forward with pleading eyes as if that could get her

don’t move! It’s dangerous,” Sebastian calms her, and even at such a time, his tone is gentle as ever, “I’m

Sebastian, and

on me for the first

my tears, turning away with a

hard decision for him. The tricky part, is how Sebastian could.convince him that I’m the apple of

frantic grin spread on Liam

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

stops where he is, his hands up in the air: “I won’t move, but you got it wrong. She’s not my mistress! I just don’t want an innocent to die because

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