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.

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 and

proved to be a headache for Armond, and he had to talk to a lot of

take our flight tickets. At the same time,

and the girls were exhilarated. Nora held my hands. “You can’t imagine how happy I am

can go home!

“Yay for me too!”

Tabitha suggested, “Our flight’s

“Sure!”

carefully, “But we

and the Murphys are rich.

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

must be worried sick. I

never say

handed the bag to Nora and said, “Alright, I’ll go get it. Wait here

joyful smile spread across

grunt. “I’ve taken the goods and handed them

he saw me and was taken aback. Then he quickly said into the phone, “I’ll talk to you later. I’m hanging up

he turned 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

made a promise.

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

moment,

card and said,

card in his hand and felt a little confused. “That’s too much. All I need is just a few thousand.

have this card on me,” he said

card

the card. They bought a lot of products after going around a dozen of the branded stores

shopping impulse. That was only because they were in

a long time and realized that my

that Armond had spent an effort to get for me was completely

just now? I watched you put it in the bag. 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

pondered for a moment and said, “I was holding the bag just now, and I didn’t overturn it. Could it be that it was lost at one of the shops we

This is a big airport, and it’ll take us a while to get to the boarding gate. If we delay anymore, we might miss

and began to

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

Do you want to leave her here all by herself?” Nora said

at the time. There was not enough time, and that’s considering that we would need some time to get to

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

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

Scarlett. Are you using her to climb the ladder because of her connections and

Nora fumed at Tessa’s ridiculous

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

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

helpless and I

around to take a look. To my surprise,

The plane might

would you know that the plane will be delayed?” Nora asked. “You

said, “It’s going to pour soon.

and said softly in my ear, “I

necessarily,” I said

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

in thought. Then she said, “Let’s search

or dropped it

say never

start the process again, they will

She had a point.

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

the trashcans?” I

“I can’t tell you now. Let’s go and search

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

I did not understand what Nora meant,

few stores, she finally found the documents in a trashcan.

saw her retrieved the documents from the bottom of the

surprised. Just like me, he never thought that the documents would

handed the documents to me and said, “Look

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

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

in the trashcan. Besides, we’ve never seen these documents before. We have a

the surveillance footage,” Nora said angrily. “Other

have a plane to catch. Let’s go now.” All

she always was, Nora insisted, “No. We

footage for us to watch.

said softly, “I’m sorry, but

smiled faintly and said, “That’s

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

froze and asked

said, “Come

a little surprised, so I walked over to them to watch the surveillance footage. In the video, the five of us could be seen shopping around

she handed

focused on shopping that we were not

and with her back turned, she retrieved the

us out of the store as if

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

my lips and was lost in thought. After snapping out of my thought, I turned to the storekeepers and apologized to them. After thanking them again, I slipped the documents

me and said,

delayed, we should hurry. In a few minutes, it’ll be boarding

mean about Tessa. She obviously has bad intentions. Are you going to