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.

Ryan lets out a horrifying laugh, “She was well awake when I

for putting

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. I have been

Sebastian.

it seems. He is not exactly panting, but his collar is open,

moment I see a familiar face still activates my

074 Platonic Love

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a seven–year- old, lost in 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

kitten is

he repeated those exact

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

It’s dangerous,” Sebastian calms her, and even at such a time, his

and feeling that, Sebastian adds: “To either

when his eyes landed on me

eyes to stop my tears, turning

The tricky part, is

ugly, frantic grin spread

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

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

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