She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

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Scarlett’s POV

“So what did he took from your mom?” Lucas asks.

“Well…”

Lucas narrows his eyes: “Do you not know what it is?”

No. I didn’t go through with Sebastian’s “deal“, and in the end, I only got to know that Jack Fuller took something.

Damn that jerk.

“Then how is it different if I’m going instead of you?” Lucas lets out a

chuckle, seeing through my hesitation, “How were you even going to look for it though?”

“Well…”

“Yep, say no more,” Lucas concludes our conversation, realizing I have no good answer to his questions, “I’m not letting a pregnant woman climbing second–floor balconies to look for a maybe.”

“I can sort of tell Jack Fuller’s things apart from something that doesn’t belong to his office–”

video,” Lucas’s solution comes

daughter sneaking around her adopted father’s

let them

change his mind, we came up with our new plan. We still move half an hour into the party – where the air just heats up and the whole house comes to life. Lucas will go into the study in my place, try out the password, and look for anything that

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room

will crash the party and create a scene so Lucas can get back into my room

everyone.

yes. I have never seen Ava hosting a party

me too

study’s door lock – it’s on. Though pushing it a bit by hosting a party at home, it’s a nothing misdemeanor. Even if Jack Fuller knows — and I think he did whenever Ava pulled this before, he wouldn’t really

leave his study open. She wouldn’t dare to even

bends over the safe, putting on a pair of white gloves before turning the dial with

Fuller changed it. Seriously? Same old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might be the same old fox, but I’m not falling for that again.

up,] I text Adrian. That’s our code if the password

less suspicious if I found the same story repetitively. He either made up a

in– they are the best detectives. They follow stories – lies — their whole life, and sometimes they have to deal with cases with much