105 Jack Fuller’s Compromise

Scarlett’s POV

His men haste up their steps and surround us, all in straight faces with their eyes hiding behind cold. sunglasses, “…Adrian…?” My voice is shaking.

“Take the tickets,” Adrian puts them in my hand, standing in front of me, “You will be okay. Nobody can touch you today, so long as I’m here.”

“Mr. Dunn,” Jack Fuller nods at Adrian with a smile, “Fancy seeing you here.”

“I guess I can say the same to you,” Adrian blocks me with his body, “Where are you traveling to, Mr. Fuller, if I may ask?”

lips scornfully, but

I just watched how he tamed Ava.

like I could never get out of

looking at me right in my eyes, “This is for your own good,

I won’t, never again.

to it, we can have such a calm conversation about it: “Ava is all but cured. Please, you don’t need

and gentle: “Scarlett, I’m not doing this just for

I normally don’t believe Ava, but if Jack Fuller rememb her slip of the tongue for so many years, then it definitely

and the next moment, all the warmth

you are looking for does not exist,” He

for a home that shelters me because of me, not for my blood or sweat or any value I might provide. Even such

I refuse to listen. Adrian shoots me a worried

away.

don’t believe him, not even a word, and there is no point arguing with him, If you really care about my welfare as

face twists. Normally this means he is really, really angry. I used to shiver at that look when I was little, but I’m not the little

anymore! He is NOT my father! I want MY father, a father who would really care about

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