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.

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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.

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 and asked them to send the

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

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

hands. “You can’t imagine how happy I

go

“Yay for me too!”

“Our flight’s one hour

“Sure!”

carefully, “But we

lend you some then. She’s friends with Mr. Murphy, and the Murphys are rich. I don’t think she’d

I know it’s a bit much to ask, but can you lend us some money? I really want to

carefully. “Same here. They must be worried sick. I know they must have searched high and

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at Armond, who was on the phone, I handed the bag to Nora and

Scarlett.” A joyful

grunt. “I’ve taken the goods

he glanced back, he saw me and was taken aback. Then he quickly said

to me and asked, “What’s

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

I’ve already made a promise.

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

stunned for a moment, but he smiled and replied,

pocket, he whipped out a black card and said, “Here you go. There’s no credit

and felt a little confused. “That’s too much. All I need is just

think too much of it. I only have this card on me,” he said as he looked

reached out and took the black card from him. Sighing inwardly, I said,

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

they managed to control their shopping impulse. That was only because they were in a hurry to make it through security checks to board the

bag for a long time and realized that my air ticket

paperwork that Armond had spent an effort to

It’s impossible for you to lose it.” Nora took the bag from me and searched the bag again. She couldn’t find the air ticket and letter in the

for a moment and said, “I was holding the bag just now, and I didn’t overturn it. Could it be that it was

grew anxious. Looking at the time, she said, “We only have half an hour left. This is a big airport, and it’ll take us a while to get

nodded and

the documents here by yourself, and we will wait for you at the boarding

it? Do you want to leave her here

that’s considering that we would need

and said, “You guys go ahead, go find the boarding gate

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

you using her to climb the ladder because of her connections

at

her and said, “It’s okay. Don’t

was a strong-willed person and would never allow anyone to tell her what to

and I said

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

plane might be delayed.

the plane will be delayed?” Nora asked. “You don’t

smiled and said, “It’s going to pour soon. They will definitely delay the flight for safety

in my

I said with a

panic and said, “I carried your bag properly just now. There’s

was deep in thought. Then she

said, “Forget it. I probably left it in the villa or dropped it somewhere. Why don’t you

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not that easy. You just applied for it, and now you want to go through it again. To start the process again, they will

She had a point.

she looked at me and said, “Scarlett, listen to me. Let’s go and search every store’s trashcan. We might

the trashcans?” I asked,

said, “I can’t tell you now. Let’s

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

what Nora meant, I went

she finally found the documents in a trashcan. She exclaimed in delight, “I found

saw her retrieved the documents from the bottom of

like me, he never thought that the documents would be in

to me and said, “Look through it and see if there’s

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

seen us return to her store twice to look for it, and she was even more surprised that it was found in

wasn’t us who threw it in the trashcan. Besides, we’ve never seen these documents before. We have a surveillance camera, and if you’d like, you can view the footage yourself.

“Other than you guys, who else could have done

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

Nora insisted,

for us to watch. It was the only way for her to

and said softly, “I’m

faintly and said, “That’s

moment, the storekeeper said, “See that? We didn’t

asked

me and said, “Come and

to them to watch the surveillance footage. In the video, the five of us could

handbags, so she handed my bag that was in

shopping that we were not

she retrieved the documents from my bag and threw

out of the store

was she trying to do? Did she do that so that you won’t be able to return with the lack of

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

me and said, “You can’t keep quiet. You have to say

faint smile. “Even though the flight’s delayed, we should hurry.

obviously has