105 Jack Fuller’s Compromise

Scarlett’s POV

His men haste up their steps and surround us, all in straight faces with their eyes hiding behind cold. sunglasses, “…Adrian…?” My voice is shaking.

“Take the tickets,” Adrian puts them in my hand, standing in front of me, “You will be okay. Nobody can touch you today, so long as I’m here.”

“Mr. Dunn,” Jack Fuller nods at Adrian with a smile, “Fancy seeing you here.”

“I guess I can say the same to you,” Adrian blocks me with his body, “Where are you traveling to, Mr. Fuller, if I may ask?”

Jack Fuller curves his lips scornfully, but then he answers tamely: “North Dakota.”

My stomach drops. He is here for me, and he knows what I’m up to. I knew he was crafty with a black heart, and I just watched how he tamed Ava. But still. Never have I been more frightened by this man l once called Dad than at this moment.

I feel like I could never get out of his grasp.

“Scarlett, come home with me,” Jack Fuller took a side step, looking at me right in my eyes, “This is for your own good, trust me.”

I won’t, never again.

when it comes to it, we can have such a calm conversation about it: “Ava

I thought I saw some emotion in his eyes, something soft and gentle: “Scarlett, I’m not doing this just for Ava. What you

know!” I insist. I normally don’t believe Ava, but if Jack Fuller rememb her slip of the tongue for so many years,

moment, all the warmth in his eyes is

exist,” He says, his voice

that shelters me because of me, not for my blood or sweat or any value I might provide. Even such a request does not exist?

to listen. Adrian shoots me a worried look, and I dart my

away.

is no point arguing with him, If you really care about my welfare as you said, then

face twists. Normally this means he is really, really angry. I used to shiver at that look when I was little, but

want MY father, a father

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105 Jack Fuller’s Compromise

you really have to do it this hastily? You don’t even know where

Fuller, the dominant patriarch in the family really making a compromise to me? If budge, could I really keep up a harmonious surface in the “family”

a plan first, then you would let me go?” I ask him with an

I–” Jack Fuller nods, but

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