She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

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.

comes to it, we can have such a calm conversation about it: “Ava is all but cured. Please, you don’t need

there, I thought I saw some emotion in his eyes, something soft and gentle: “Scarlett, I’m not doing this

believe Ava, but if Jack Fuller rememb her slip of the tongue for so many years, then

all the warmth in his eyes is

for does not exist,” He says,

me, not for my blood or sweat or any

brain sounds the alarm but I refuse to listen. Adrian shoots me a worried look, and I

away.

looking for a fresh start,” I don’t believe him, not even a word, and there is no point arguing with

Normally this means he is really, really angry. I used to shiver at that look when I was little, but I’m not the

my father! I want MY father, a father

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105 Jack Fuller’s Compromise

He lets out a sigh and asks: “Do you really have to do it this hastily? You don’t even know where to look. How about you come home, and

patriarch in the family really making a compromise to me? If budge, could I really keep up a harmonious surface in the “family” and live my life in

you would let me go?” I ask him

Jack Fuller nods, but Adrian suddenly cuts