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.

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

soft and gentle: “Scarlett, I’m not doing this just for Ava. What you are looking for

Jack Fuller rememb her

the next moment, all the warmth in his eyes is

for does not exist,” He says, his voice

not for my blood or sweat or any value I might

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

away.

point arguing with him, If you really

I used to shiver at that look when I was little, but I’m not the little orphan girl that he

father! I want MY father, a father who would really

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105 Jack Fuller’s Compromise

Fuller realizes his magic is not working today. 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 make a sound plan

Is he, Jack Fuller, the dominant patriarch in the family really making a compromise to me? If budge, could I

make a plan first, then you would let me go?” I

Fuller nods, but Adrian suddenly cuts