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.”

herself into me with genuine happiness in her voice, “That was him? What did he say?

With Mr. Fuller? Yes.

behind his eyes when he looked at me since I could remember. I just didn’t know why

usual, Aurora spares mind to comfort me. Well, I guess for a former F1

“I…thanks.”

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

happened to Mr. Fuller’s beloved wife, he wouldn’t just throw me a sentence. He would send guards to hunt

flight ticket, one fold, two folds, three…I throw the million pieces out to the remote road between the airport and the city. Between my

vessel to my “family”, making leaving something I can never have. I actually thought I could, because Ava is supposed to be cured now, meaning I don’t have to give her

naive was

Mom, I’m sorry but

that I don’t have to lose

at the Fuller’s Villa to Ava’s fancily decorated welcome home party filled with

knew I was at the

blood vessel for his love, but even such a small thing he won’t do.

good for

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

I walk by the pool, I see Sebastian. Black suits ironed straight, with his leather shoes at a safe distance from the crazy kids in the water. He sits under

and he frowns and

Alfred approaches: “Miss Scarlett, Mr. Fuller

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