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

power, I could never escape. My plan was to wait until I graduated from high 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 me. Besides, I would be able to get a job. I had it all planned out, and that was why I got straight As in school, not because I was a nerd, but because I

plan died at Sebastian’s

summon me,” I tell Adrian, waving my phone briefly, Especially if I want to escape. I can’t afford to let them get

my side, I might have a chance. I need to keep everything low–key, and

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 did he even apply for such an adoption from

my birth certification,” I shake my head, feeling unsure about the information myself, “Ava had a slip of the tongue once, the time

that you were adopted???” Adrian raises his eyebrows in shock, That’s-

I sigh with a nod, leaning back on the elevator, “I’m not sure how much of that I

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into. Jack Fuller

who doesn’t want me to leave the most.