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–”

through video,” Lucas’s solution

red–handed, I’m just a daughter sneaking around her adopted father’s study, but

won’t let them

at dusk, and realizing I couldn’t 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

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room

will crash the party and create a scene so Lucas can get

everyone.

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

knows me too

he checks the 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

study open. She wouldn’t dare to even

white gloves before

Seriously? Same old trick from ten years ago? Well, he might be the same old fox, but

story coming up,] I text Adrian. That’s our

password, meaning whatever story he intended me to look at in the safe is no longer the same — or he wouldn’t need to change it. It would be less suspicious if I found the same story repetitively. He either made

now forced to make a move, and 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