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 was

With Mr. Fuller? Yes.

me since I could remember. I just didn’t know why until

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

“I…thanks.”

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 hell that they force me to

anything really happened to Mr. Fuller’s beloved wife, he wouldn’t just throw me a

fold, two folds, three…I throw the million pieces out to the remote road between the airport and the city. Between my almost-touched freedom, and my living

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 my blood when she gets even if just a

naive was

Mom, I’m sorry but

don’t have to lose you.

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

was at the airport, hence the phone

for him, to be the blood vessel for his love, but even such a small thing

good for

assets in the city.

at a safe distance from the crazy kids in the water. He sits under the umbrella, a

and he frowns

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

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