129 Death Ants

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–”

study through video,” Lucas’s solution comes faster

just a daughter sneaking

won’t let them

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

and if anything goes wrong, I will crash the party and create a scene so Lucas can get

everyone.

hope nothing will go wrong because Sebastian is highly likely to be at the party. Actually that’s a certain yes. I have never seen Ava hosting a party without him. And if anyone can see through my plan, it’s

me

pushing it a bit by hosting a party at home, it’s a nothing misdemeanor. Even

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

pair of white gloves before turning the dial

Jack 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.

text Adrian. That’s our code

or he wouldn’t need to change it. It would be less suspicious if I found the same story repetitively. He either made up a new story for me to see, or he would change into a new story after I opened his safe like he expected

moves leave traces. That’s where Adrian and his army of journalists come in– they are the best detectives. They follow stories – lies — their whole life, and sometimes they have to deal with cases with much softer evidence than what

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