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Scarlett’s POV

I cover my mouth in shock, throwing the case into the safe and locking it, only to realize I have got nowhere to escape. How could she be ba so quickly?!

“Scarlett!” Ava keeps shouting, wracking the doorknob like crazy, “You stole my key, didn’t you?! You dare to sneak into Daddy’s study?! You are dead! Daddy told me you would try something and you certainly did! Open up!”

I struggle between the door and the balcony.

It’s not safe if Lucas is not there to catch me, if I go with the air way. But if I go with the door…

I wanted to play dumb and investigate first, but I guess the beans are spilling. I grip the key in one hand, and the doorknob in another. If this is how it’s blowing out–

“Some guy climbed into her window,” I hear a guy’s voice across the door, his words are for Ava apparently. I hold my breath and wait.

Some guy? What guy? Lucas? Into my room, not the study??? Wait, they have eyes on the windows???!

“The cameraman? Into her room? They are not sleeping together, are they?” Ava whispers back, hesitating, “But my key is gone… Who else would steal it but her?”

“Scarlett!” Ava shouts at the door again, giving me a flinch, “Daddy is on his way home! You better come out while you can!”

Shit.

this moment, my phone lights up. Luca’s

my screen on my body, backing away from the study’s door slowly with my hand on my mouth. All the way till I am by the glass door, furthest from the door, I put the call through and whisper:

as the call is through, “They can’t get into the study so long as you have the key. We just need to persuade them that you are in your room and this can be

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door?” I whisper, hearing the shiver in my own voice, “She

has eyes on him, but he is an hour away,” Lucas answers swiftly, “we still have

phone, “when you hear her voice, speak into your microphone as loud as you are allowed to be. Be careful not to

“Okay-”

both outside my door

I can, covering my voice with my hand as if that can block my voice from escaping to the door. I said it as lightly as I could, but it still sounded like a

anyone by the

hesitation, “You…in

like a conundrum if I answer either

it’s just Lucas,” I try,

kicks the ball to me yet again, “you know you are still married, right?