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.

have such a calm conversation about

“Scarlett, I’m not doing this just for

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

Fuller signs, and the next moment, all

looking for does not exist,”

a home that shelters me because of me, not for my blood or sweat or any value I might provide. Even

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

away.

believe him, not even a word, and there is no point arguing with him, If you really care about my welfare as you said, then you should let

angry. I used to shiver at that look when I

is NOT my father! I want MY father, a father who

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105 Jack Fuller’s Compromise

you really

really making a compromise to me? If budge, could I really keep

would let me go?” I ask him with an uncertain

Jack Fuller nods, but Adrian suddenly