079 Dear Father

Scarlett’s POV

Warmth calms.

I never understood why in movies the victims are all given an orange blanket even if they aren’t wet. Now I know. At the moment of shock, a blanket can work magic, and calm your jittery nerves.

But after calmness, embarrassment hits.

I hug myself, sitting in the back of the ambulance, feeling my ears burn.

What did I just do?!

I cried and snuggled in the arms of a basically stranger! Who is going to be my boss that I would meet on a daily basis?

Can I

“Here,”

it now…?

warm cup touches my cheek lightly, and I look up startled, only to see Adrian’s chuckle. In his hand a small

even get milk

and lower my eyes, having no courage to look

my eyes on

on my own.”

hand, staring at it for a second before he sighs with a self- mocking laugh: “They were

words,

can’t even begin to imagine how that feels like and how

it and keep my head low. He

gentle but his tone icy cold. I look up, only to see Sebastian stopping in

us, a few

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go get your own.”

at Adrian, and for some reason I feel like he is furious. I tilt my head slowly, and I see the source of the annoying cry that has been in the background – Ava, in a horrifying cry as she lies on a stretcher, alone on

get this ambulance just for me?

check…” Sebastian mumbles in a small voice,

blood,” I cut

is the last person I want to see right now. How cruel does one need to be to come demand

drag me into this in the first

I meant,”

-just-”

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