She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

108 The Sound Of A Heart Breaking

Sebastian’s POV

“…what do you mean…?” Scar’s voice shakes with fear when I get close. She shoots me an indifferent glance like she doesn’t see me at all. Her eyes are red in tears, and her fists shaking.

What could Jack Fuller possibly say to her? She wasn’t this upset even when she gave me those files.

“You have always thought I faked your adoption file,” Jack Fuller says with a heavy sigh, “You were right. I didn’t adopt you from the orphanage. I found you in North Dakota, in your mother’s cold arms.”

“You are lying!” Scar hisses at Jack Fuller like a hurt little kitten. Her ears would fly backward if she had any. She shakes her head and tears fall down but she doesn’t even feel that. She turns to grab Adrian’s shirt with a wronged look, and I glare over at Adrian.

“Take her out of here,” I tell Adrian before I turn to Jack Fuller, “You don’t have to do it here, not like this.”

I don’t know about Scar’s past, but Jack’s opening doesn’t sound like a nice story.

Adrian complies, holding Scar by her shoulders, and enters the security line. Not too many are in front of them, but it’s not like they could fly

over.

“Jack,” I take a step sideways, blocking him when he tried to follow,” You are calling it a day, here.”

at me, but he is not utter a

company is getting millions of loans from mine every year. Without my help, he is nothing. I knew he allowed both of his daughters to be close to me for it, and I didn’t care to

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dare to cross me.

Jack Fuller manages to keep his tone calm, but

as cold as his. I understood him exploiting Scar a bit before. His daughter was ill, and he wanted his other daughter to help out. Not the nicest action, but it was out of

now, and she can wait in

a moment, he sighs with a slow nod: “You care about your wife, I respect that. But you don’t know what you are sending her to. Her junkie father abandoned her mother, who died under a bridge with her in his arms. You let her go now,

a step back, looking at me right in the eyes: “I’ll leave the decision to you. I won’t intervene

fox the moment I open my

Jack’s eyes, I see his cold calculation. He wants ME to stop Scar. If he “intervenes“, he will break the cold, dark truth to her in the most humiliating, devastating way right here. If I do it, then

Not like this.

taking Jack’s side, and hate me

to stay.

I can’t.

was the hardest thing I had to do. I

This is.

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