Scarlett’s POV

“What was that?” Aurora blinks. My one-sentence phone call amazes her.

I grip my phone, for the second time today, struggling with my plan. I just want to stop being hurt. Is it too much to ask? I close my eyes. A part of me wants to just grab the ticket and leave, letting the world burn behind me.

But I can’t. If mom needs a blood transfusion, I need to be there. That’s what I’m in this family for. Their blood vessel.

Please, lord, please tell me this phone call has nothing to do with my message to Sebastian.

Between Mom really is injured, and Sebastian selling me out… I’m not sure which I hope is the situation.

“I guess I’m not leaving today after all,” I let out a sigh, mumbling to Aurora, “I’m really sorry but…I need you to take me back.”

great!” Aurora throws herself into me with genuine happiness in her voice, “That was him? What did he say? Is that always how

With Mr. Fuller? Yes.

never loved me. He had a deep flow of hatred behind his eyes when he looked at me since I could remember. I just

spares

“I…thanks.”

can’t say “I know”, nor “I hope so”. Because if mom is not hurt, then it means the only person in the family who ever showed me warmth, lied to me. Just to lure me back to the living

but if anything really happened to Mr. Fuller’s beloved wife, he wouldn’t just

to the remote road between the airport and the city.

thought I could, because Ava is supposed to be cured now, meaning I don’t have to

naive

Mom, I’m sorry but

hope you really are injured, so that I don’t have to lose you. Please,

to Ava’s fancily decorated welcome home

was at the airport, hence the phone

I would have stayed for him, to be the blood vessel for his love, but even such a small thing he won’t do. He let

Knight, good

walk into the Fuller’s Villa. One of the most luxurious assets in the city. One that

shoes at a safe distance from the crazy kids in the water.

sees me, and he

enter the lobby, and immediately Alfred approaches: “Miss Scarlett, Mr. Fuller is waiting for

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