She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

097 His City

Scarlett’s POV

“North Dakota?” Adrian shoots over a surprised look, asking as we head to the parking lot, “That’s far from here. How did know your real parents are there?”

The doctor was Adrian’s acquaintance, and at his promise, we left the doctor’s office feeling safe about my secret. I feel bad about hiding this from Sebastian, but before I’m sure I can protect my baby from them, I can’t risk letting any of my “family” know about the baby.

Adrain is the third of the only three people that I can trust my secret with.

I briefly explained to him about my situation and how Jack Fuller always managed to find me in my earlier attempts to run away from “home“.

It started with the time when Sebastian found me in the woods. I just made my first “friend” at that time, and he promised he could help me run away if “you hate your home that much“. He led me Into the woods and after a few turns he left me there alone. I didn’t know how to get out, and I didn’t know how to get

back home either.

Later I found out that my “first friend” was Ava’s “first mate” in bullying people, Ethan Turner. They laughed at me together about how stupid I was to think I could “make a friend“.

I

school, because legally the Fullers are my foster parents, and the system is on their side. But once I graduated, they won’t help Jack Fuller on searching for

plan died at

I tell Adrian, waving my phone briefly,

to catch me, besides, he got Sebastian, his powerful soon–to–be–son- In–law. But with Adrian on my side, I might have a chance. I need to keep everything low–key, and disappear on them when they would least expect

buttons in the elevator in silence, thinking. The air in the small cube freezes in

silence.

Dakota…?” He finally lets out a long breath, his pretty eyebrows furrowing together, “That’s like… the other side of the world…how

head, feeling unsure about the information myself, “Ava had a slip of the tongue once, the time when she ‘accidentally told me that I was adopted. She said I

told you that you were adopted???” Adrian raises his eyebrows

on the elevator, “I’m not sure how much of that I could trust either. But that’s

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like I had anything to look into. Jack Fuller doesn’t even it me touch my

she is the one who doesn’t want me to leave the most. I don’t think she has any motive to lure me out of the city, unless that’s information