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…

“You weren’t looking so pale when I pulled you up from right that hole behind

my head slightly, only to see what I can only call a middle school student craft homework. It’s just a few wheels with a rope! I can’t believe this psycho pulled me up

Ava burst into tears.

Ryan lets out a horrifying laugh, “She

I thank him for putting me out for

to come up here again after today, for different reasons though. I-” Liam Ryan’s eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they freeze in a direction. A wide grin crawls onto his

Sebastian.

his way up to the 17th floor, it seems. He is not exactly panting, but his collar is open,

me, but the moment I

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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

when he repeated those exact words, to

wiggles forward with pleading eyes as if

at such a time, his

Sebastian, and feeling that, Sebastian adds: “To either

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