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.”

“That was him? What did he

With Mr. Fuller? Yes.

behind 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

Driving faster than usual, Aurora spares mind to

“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

that possibility, but if anything really happened to Mr. Fuller’s beloved wife, he wouldn’t just throw me a sentence. He

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

I’m the blood 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

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

welcome home party filled with a

I was at the airport, hence the phone

them after all. Just one word and I would have stayed for him, to be the blood vessel for his love,

Knight, good

in the city. One that I used to call home

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 frowns and looks

“Miss Scarlett, Mr. Fuller is waiting for

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