008 Dragon Blood

Scarlett’s POV

Sitting on the cold floor, I realize I made my judgment too early.

I thought my life used to be a living hell. How wrong was I. Though everyone treated me horribly, never did they lay a finger on me.ter all, I was the precious blood vessel for the fragile Ava. They couldn’t afford to lose me.

But not anymore.

I palm my face, looking up slowly at the man I once called father, only to realize the coldness in his eyes: I’m still the blood vessel, just not “precious” anymore. I’m now a nice to have.

After all, Ava is all but healed now.

They won’t toss me away because I might still have value What do they have to lose if I don’t get my chance of a normal life?

For that slight “might“, I can’t have my freedom. I’m not allowed to leave the city and have my own They don’t care if my heart would be broken a million times every day here, seeing Sebastian with They don’t care that I might also need love, from somewhere, anywhere

can afford to physically hurt me

to “Mom“, to the woman that I once thought might have spared just a little love in her heart for me even though most of it is reserved for her beloved

her face with her palm and sobs, just like every time when Jack

“Mom, please, answer me.”

to not lure me back. Say that there is a shred of love in your heart for me, that even though you

just lie to me

to fucking stop talking to her Jack Fuller charges at me

my surprise, Sebastian

Sebastian’s muscled figure towers over Jack’s beer belly, “Whatever this is about, you can use your words

he will stand up for. If he didn’t save me that time, then I wouldn’t have fallen

What a mistake.

Can’t get to me, Jack shouts at me through Sebastian, “Don’t

that’s what I used to believe I let

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and Jack dashes

Sebastian frowns at me, holding his hand out for me with detest in his eyes. “I’m the one who you are upset with. We can solve it at

I laugh bitterly. We don’t have a home anymore, Sebastian. I built one for us, and you

home now. I ner had one. And today, I lost the last person in the family I thought that had shed

knight in his shining armor saving

never the damsel he

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