074 Platonic Love

Scarlett’s POV

The building’s structure is like a hotel. The elevator is designed in the center, with two lines of small rooms going around it. We were in one of the rooms on the inner lines, and the light we saw came through the room on the outer circle.

I didn’t know this until Liam Ryan dragged both Ava and me out of the room, through a pitch–dark hallway, to a huge hole in the center of the building.

The half–built elevator shaft is like the enormous mouth of a monster lurking in the dark, waiting for us to drop in.

The back of our chairs are inches away from the edge. I dare not to move, turn, or even peek at the abyss behind me, and I’m already getting dizzy from acrophobia.

I’m going to puke…

Liam Ryan smirks at me, “You weren’t looking so pale when I pulled you

only call a middle school student craft homework. It’s just a few

Ava burst into tears.

horrifying laugh, “She was well

for putting me out

though. I-” Liam Ryan’s eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they freeze in a direction. A wide grin crawls onto his face slowly,

Sebastian.

exactly panting, but his collar is open, and his face is

moment I see a familiar face still activates

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that day, when I was just a seven–year- old, lost in the woods. He was just like this–wearing his tiny, children’s suits all serious, his face covered in sweat

lost kitten is

me when he repeated those exact words,

no reaction to his words, but wiggles forward with pleading eyes as if that could

hey, don’t move! It’s dangerous,” Sebastian calms her, and even at such a time, his tone is gentle as

his eagle eyes on Sebastian, and feeling that, Sebastian adds: “To either

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