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

daughter sneaking around her adopted father’s study, but

let

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

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room

and if anything goes wrong, I will crash the party and

everyone.

a certain yes. I have never seen Ava hosting a party without

me too

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

to leave his study open. She wouldn’t dare

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

years ago? Well, he might be the same old fox, but

text Adrian. That’s our

change it. It would be less suspicious if I

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 with much softer evidence