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.

In love, never say never chapter 667

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.

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 and asked them to send the necessary documents

a headache for Armond, and he had to talk to a

came to the airport, and Armond sent his men to take our flight tickets. At

my hands. “You can’t imagine how happy I am right

can go

“Yay for me too!”

girls held each other’s hands, looking excited. Tabitha suggested, “Our flight’s one hour away. Why

“Sure!”

Laurel said carefully, “But we

with Mr. Murphy, and the Murphys are

the puppy-eye 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

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

never say never

was on the phone, I handed the bag to Nora and said, “Alright, I’ll go get it.

A joyful smile spread across

grunt. “I’ve taken the goods

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

turned to me and asked, “What’s

at his place and being a burden to him. Right now, I was

promise. I couldn’t return empty-handed

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

was stunned for a moment, but he smiled and replied,

out a black card and said, “Here you

a little confused. “That’s too much. All I need is just a few thousand.

I only have this card on me,” he said as he looked at

card from him. Sighing inwardly, I said, “I can never understand

of products

managed to control their shopping impulse. That was only because they were

rummaged through my bag for a long

had spent an effort

for you to lose it.” Nora took the bag from me and searched the bag again. She couldn’t

said, “I was holding the bag just now, and I didn’t overturn it. Could

This is a big airport, and it’ll take us a while to get to the boarding

nodded and began

find the documents here by

way! What if she can’t find it? Do you want to leave her here all by

enough time, and that’s considering that we would need

at them and said, “You guys go ahead, go find the boarding gate first. I’ll go back and look for the documents. It won’t be a

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

you have bonded so well with Scarlett. Are you using her to

fumed at Tessa’s

and said, “It’s okay. Don’t worry about me.

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

and I said

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

“No. The plane

you know that the plane will be delayed?” Nora asked. “You don’t own

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

leaned closer to me and said softly in my ear, “I find Armond unfathomable. Are all young rich men like

said

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

deep in thought.

villa or dropped it somewhere. Why don’t you join back the

say

go through it again. To start the process again, they will ask for your identification to verify. The entire process itself will take

She had a point.

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

the trashcans?” I asked,

said, “I can’t tell you

towards the store and began to look into the trashcans of every store.

Nora

finally found the documents in a trashcan. She

stunned when I saw her retrieved the documents from the

never thought that the documents would be

to me and said, “Look through it and see if

storekeeper and raised her voice. “What’s wrong with you people? Why didn’t you keep the documents until the owner comes

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

see the surveillance footage,” Nora said angrily. “Other than you guys, who else could

it, Nora. We have a plane to catch. Let’s go now.” All it mattered was that we found what we

as she always was, Nora insisted,

surveillance footage for us to watch. It was the only

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

smiled faintly and said, “That’s

watched the surveillance footage together. After a brief moment, the storekeeper said, “See that? We didn’t throw the documents into the trashcan.

and asked in

looked at me and said, “Come and have a

them to watch the surveillance footage.

new handbags, so she handed my bag that was in her

were so focused on shopping that we were not aware of what was happening

and with her back turned, she retrieved the documents from my bag and threw it into the

then she followed us out of the store as if nothing had

Nora blew her top. “What was she trying to do? Did she do that so that you won’t be able to return with the

and was lost in thought. After snapping out of my thought, I turned to the storekeepers and

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

the flight’s delayed,

obviously has bad intentions. Are you