In Love, Never Say Never

In love, never say never chapter 666

Tessa had no good retort for that. Her face turned red with anger, and she frowned, ready to rebuke, but Laurel quickly stopped her, “Calm down, guys. Let’s talk this through. We don’t have to fight. It’s pointless. And we’re all safe and sound, and that’s a cause for celebration.”

Everyone fell silent, and Tessa stood up. “I’m full. You guys go ahead.” Then she went upstairs.

Tabitha and Nora said nothing, while Laurel looked at me and shifted the topic, “Are you going straight to A City after you go back, Scarlett?”

I nodded. “Yeah. I want to see my daughter.”

“You have a daughter?” She was surprised. “But you look so young. How old is your daughter now?”

“Five. Almost six, actually.”

They looked at one another, and Nora threw me a look of curiosity. “So you’re married? Does Armond know about it?”

That question was weird, but I nodded. “He does.”

“Huh?” The girls were stunned. “He knows you’re a married woman, but he’s still that nice to you? Is he sick in the head?”

“Didn’t know hotties like him love young MILFs.”

The conversation went in a weird direction, and I laughed. “Don’t think too much about it. He’s helping me out for something in return. I have something he needs, so this is nothing but a transaction.”

“Transaction?” Nora was surprised, and also flummoxed. “Is the thing he’s looking for worth the lives of five?”

“It’s a box my grandma gave me before she passed on. It’s a puzzle box. I have one, but the other one was auctioned off. He’s looking for this box, but I don’t know why.” I wasn’t sure who Armond was. His last name was Murphy, so I thought he was probably a part of the Murphys.

But if that was the case, why did he take the trouble to hold that auction in J City and sold off the box he had? If he wasn’t a part of the Murphys though, then why was he aiming for that box?

Nora rubbed her chin and nodded. “Rich guys like him like to waste their time on stuff we think are unnecessary.” She then looked at me. “Thank you, though. I’ll treat you to something good when we get back. You’re my friend now.”

I smiled, and Tabitha looked at me. “My wedding’s in October, but I don’t know if that’s going to change after what happened. You have to come if it’s proceeding as usual though.”

Laurel smiled. “Yeah, we’re besties now. Hey, I have an idea. Do you guys want to open a company?”

We were taken aback by that proposal, and Tabitha looked at her. “Don’t tell me you want us to be your partners.”

Laurel nodded incessantly. “I have been giving it some thought back in the glass room. I thought I’d open a company with you guys if I managed to get out alive, and I did get out in one piece. We’re going to work together for our whole life.”

Tabitha frowned. “You are so greedy! You just got saved from one hell, and now you want to bind all of us together?”

Laurel smiled. “I mean, we can do anything together after the hell we went through. We met by chance, and I want this friendship to go on. We come from different places, so we’re going to drift away if we have nothing to connect us. I don’t want that to happen.”

Nora found it amusing. “That so cheesy. That won’t happen. We can always chat online.”

“What kind of company do you have in mind?” I asked. “Any idea about where you’re going to establish it? What’s the company going to sell?”

Laurel gave it some thought. “I haven’t thought about that in detail. All I have is a rough idea, but I know where the company should be established— A City. Sure, it’s not the best city, but the infrastructure’s well established, and it’s developing well. It’s in a strategic location, and the weather’s perfect too.”

“I have an idea,” Nora said. “Why don’t you open up an inn or tea shop? We can gather round at any time for a little vacation.”

Tabitha nodded. “Good idea.” The girls kept on talking, while I looked at the second floor, and I went upstairs after some contemplation.

I knocked on Tessa’s door, but it took a while for her to open it. She was surprised to see me, then she asked, “Anything?”

“Let’s talk.”

She frowned and took a step back to let me in.

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She was obsessed with Buddhism. The moment she was saved, she erected a Buddha statue in her room and started worshipping it. Tessa sat cross legged before the statue and put her hands together as she muttered the mantras under her breath.

“What do you want to talk about?” she said.

I looked at her and answered, “Do you really believe he’ll bless you?”

She looked at me from the corner of her eye and replied sternly, “I wouldn’t be talking to you now if he doesn’t.”

Well, that was one woman far gone in religion. I paused for a moment. “They said you live in A City. Laurel’s going to open up a shop there once we get back. Want to join us?”

“No,” she refused firmly.

I nodded. “I didn’t mean it, you know. I didn’t want to hurt you guys. I really didn’t. I never expected Dante to hurt you like that. I—”

“Enough!” she interrupted me and threw me a dirty look. “Do you really think you’re that noble, Stovall? You keep looking down at us from a pedestal. Has anyone ever told you you’re one heck of a hypocrite?”

I looked at her, stunned.

She sneered. “I don’t think you even realized this yourself, but you’re a cold, selfish woman. And yet you keep trying to make yourself out to be some saint. You come from a privileged background, men fawn over you, and people would help you out no matter what. All you did was sit on your *ss and reaped the rewards. Ask yourself: have you ever gotten something through your own two hands? I knew it.”

I gaped at her, having no retort for that.

She was spurred on by my silence. “You’re just pretending to be a good guy, but you hate me more than they do, don’t you? That’s why you kept quiet when Dante chose me. Because you’d feel less guilty if I was the one who’s hurt. Because you never liked me. Am I right?”

I kept quiet, for I thought she had a point. Humans would tend to be sentimental, and even though I knew some part of her answer was fueled by her own rage, I couldn’t help but feel that I had the same thought at some point too.

I wanted to save them, yes, but I didn’t do my best either. I just went with the flow and didn’t do everything I could. even though I knew Ashton might be looking for me in Venria, I was still staying in Western Europe without a care.

“What? Got nothing to say to that?” She sneered with disdain.

I got up and left without saying anything. Not many people could face their own darkness head on. Me included.

…

The morning sun shone through the glass and covered the bed with golden dust. It was already August before I knew it. Fall’s around the corner.

prepare for the return. We managed to get to Western Europe from Venria without any passport or ID since the security was lax thanks to Armond, but it wouldn’t be so easy the other way around. Fortunately, Nora and the girls called their families

the only number I memorized was Ashton’s. That proved to be a headache for

men to take our flight tickets. At the same time, he went to settle his

held my hands. “You can’t

can go

“Yay for me too!”

hands, looking excited. Tabitha suggested, “Our flight’s one hour away. Why don’t we buy something

“Sure!”

“But we don’t have money.”

and the Murphys are rich. I

look and said nothing. Tabitha hesitated before speaking up, “Scarlett. I know it’s a bit much to ask, but can you lend us some money? I really want to bring something

sick. I know they must have searched high and low for

say never

help but sigh. After looking at Armond, who was on the phone, I handed the bag

Scarlett.” A joyful smile spread

“I’ve taken the goods and handed them

me and was taken aback. Then he quickly said into the

he turned to me

little embarrassed. All this while I was staying at his place and being a burden to him. Right now, I was really pushing my

made a promise. I couldn’t

borrow some money from you, please? My friends would like to buy

stunned for a moment, but

black card and said, “Here you go. There’s no credit

looked at the card in his hand and felt a little confused. “That’s too much. All I

this card on me,” he said as he looked

black card from him. Sighing inwardly, I said, “I

lost themselves with the card. They bought a lot of products after going around

shopping impulse. That was only because they were in a hurry to make it

bag for a long time and realized that my air ticket and entry

Armond had spent an effort to

It’s impossible for you to lose it.” Nora took the bag from me and searched the

and I didn’t overturn it. Could

only have half an hour left. This is a big airport, and it’ll take us a while to get to the boarding gate. If we

and

and said, “Scarlett, why don’t you continue to find the documents here by yourself, and we will wait for you at

want to leave her here all by

that we would need some time to get to the boarding gate after passing through the security

them and said, “You guys go ahead, go find the boarding gate first. I’ll go back and look for the

what if you can’t find it? We won’t be able to come out once we go in.” After a pause, she said, “How about this? I’ll go with you to find it. Anyhow, I’m not in a hurry to go back. I’ll stay here to accompany you if we can’t find it. There’s nothing much to do back home anyway, so it’ll be just

bonded so well with Scarlett. Are you using her to climb the ladder because of her connections and family

Nora fumed at Tessa’s ridiculous

stopped her and said, “It’s okay. Don’t worry about me. I’ll be fine by

stubbornly. She was a strong-willed person and would never allow anyone to tell her what to do. After saying that, she took my

and I said nothing

someone was following us, so I turned around to take a look. To my surprise, it was Armond tailing after us. I said to

blandly, “No. The plane

know that the plane will be delayed?” Nora

going to pour soon. They will definitely

and said softly in my ear, “I find

necessarily,” I said

a few shops, we still couldn’t find it. Nora started to panic and said, “I carried your bag properly just

was deep in thought. Then she

and said, “Forget it. I probably left it in the villa or dropped it somewhere. Why don’t you join back the girls? I’ll go and prepare for the

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through it again. To start the process again, they will ask for

She had a point.

said, “Scarlett, listen to me. Let’s go and search

I asked, in

can’t tell you now. Let’s go

me towards the store and began to look into the trashcans of every store. She even asked the storekeepers if they had changed the

not understand what Nora meant, I

After searching in a few stores, she finally found the documents in a trashcan. She exclaimed in

her retrieved the documents from the bottom of the

he never thought

and said, “Look through

with you people? Why didn’t you keep the documents until the owner comes back for them? Why did you throw such important

puzzled. She had seen us return to her store twice to look for it, and she was even more surprised

trashcan. Besides, we’ve never seen these documents before. We have a surveillance camera, and if you’d like, you can view the footage

“Other than you guys, who else could have done such

catch. Let’s go now.” All it mattered was that we found what

as she always was, Nora insisted, “No. We must watch the surveillance

surveillance footage for us to watch. It was the only way for

at Armond and said softly, “I’m sorry, but this may take

and

together. After a brief moment, the storekeeper said,

and asked in confusion,

looked at me and said, “Come and

was a little surprised, so I walked over to them to watch the surveillance footage. In the

try on some new handbags, so she handed

us were so focused on shopping that we were not aware

retrieved the

out of

her top. “What was she trying to do? Did she do that so that

of my thought, I turned to the storekeepers and apologized to them. After thanking them again, I slipped the documents into my

was silent, the troubled Nora tugged at me and said, “You can’t keep quiet. You

the flight’s delayed, we should hurry. In

Tessa. She obviously has bad intentions.