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.”

Aurora throws herself into me with genuine happiness in her voice, “That

With Mr. Fuller? Yes.

his eyes when he looked at me since I could remember. I just didn’t know why until I found out I was adopted. And for how I

Aurora spares mind to comfort me. Well, I guess for

“I…thanks.”

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 hell that they force me to

really happened to Mr. Fuller’s beloved

ticket, one fold, two folds, three…I throw the million pieces out to the remote road

leaving something I can never have. I actually thought I could, because Ava is supposed to

ridiculously naive was

Mom, I’m sorry but

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

Villa to Ava’s fancily decorated welcome home party filled with a happy crowd, I know

was at the

the blood vessel for his love, but even such a small

Knight, good

in the city. One that I used to

straight, with his leather shoes at a safe distance from the crazy kids in the water. He sits under the umbrella, a

he

the lobby, and immediately Alfred approaches: “Miss Scarlett,

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