She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

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Scarlett’s POV

Well, I don’t have one.

I talked big, but I didn’t really have a “revenge plan” in my mind. Doing people harm is a huge project, and just thinking about it exhausts me.

“Whatever you want to do, we are here for you,” Aurora says this, only to dart a weird glance at Adrian —

She could only speak for herself and Lilith on that one, but it’s also awkward to specially exclude him from it.

“Yeah!” Adrian pretends he doesn’t understand Aurora’s awkward glance, nodding firmly with a genuine tone, “We are ALL here for you.”

Aurora darts her eyes away, pressing her lips downward as they try to curve up as if having their own minds.

“You are staying with me though, right?” Aurora averts the topic she started, again, “I’m trying to get Lilith to come and live here, too. Her law firm is twenty minutes walk from her, and we can have pillow fights—”

Just within a minute, Aurora glances at Adrian in pure awkwardness twice with a look like she wants to bite off her own tongue. She is really not used to having a conversation with an outsider in our little circle.

This time Adrian looks away, clearing his throat to hide his laugh.

“Lilith, are you okay?” I ask. Adrian looks happy just with Aurora’s presence, Aurora is trying her best to give a pep talk, immersing in her burning speaker soul, and I’m having fun watching it. But among all this, Lilith looks bewildered as if something is bothering her.

to mention this, or whether I should

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us, physically, but

because she came from a different environn nt from me and Aurora, she has always felt a bit inferior. She is a straight shooter

I remind Lilith, nudging her softly, “It’s us,

like the time when she finally decided to let

something doesn’t add up,

do you

in, rubbing

have to talk about

okay,” I encourage Lilith, and after hesitation, she takes a deep breath

with my own eyes. If Ava said this, then she lied. Your mom might be a drug user, but she didn’t die using. If–if this can make you feel

was such a tragic death, and certainly not that she had to watch it herself. I

make me feel better. To know one good thing

look into my real family,” I

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everyone including myself.

there, alone with me.