138 Scar’s Pilgrimage

Scarlett’s POV

It can’t be Lucas if we are going through the door instead of the window. It has to be me. Even if anyone sees me, it won’t be a crime.

“What took you so long?!” I hiss at him when he drags me to a dark corner. In his hand is an old bronze key of a weird shape. The gate of the villa uses a fingerprint lock, but Jack Fuller’s study still uses one of those old–school locks with a complicated physical key.

What’s he hiding in there?

“This kind of lock is very expensive, one lock with only one key, and the key can’t be duplicated,” Seeing my confusion, Lucas explains, “And to answer your question, it’s because you gave me the wrong password for the phone.”

“What?! It’s not Ava’s birthday?!” I exclaim, “I swear I have seen him using that.”

“Well, maybe it was, but now it isn’t,” Lucas has a weird look on his face, “do you

want to know what it is?”

“It’s okay,” I wave my hand, “I don’t plan on stealing his phone all the time!”

my life. I was so nervous that I could barely keep

Lucas continues, looking

shoot him a weird look. Then why ask at

to tell you if you still care

key and the necklace case tight in my hand. What did I say? Never again? Not after one minute and I’m breaking and entering again! I’m

meet in five minutes by the lake. Even if she returns right after she gets there, it

it,” I take a deep breath

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and to think he put the highest security in his safe and study, it can only be me.

a showdown between

entering part

the whole floor, several floor–to–ceiling bookshelves around the room. One of them is behind the huge desk in the middle. By that bookshelf

is

at night. I’m only returning something, yet I feel like Jack Fuller will brage in at any

but he didn’t leave a father’s

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