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 then he answers tamely: “North

I knew he was crafty with a black heart, and I just watched how he tamed Ava. But still.

I could never get out

looking at me right in

I won’t, never again.

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

in his eyes, something soft and gentle: “Scarlett, I’m not doing this just for Ava. What you are looking for is not in

Ava, but if Jack Fuller rememb her slip of the tongue

next moment, all the warmth

you are looking for does not exist,” He says, his voice cold as

of me, not for my blood or sweat or any value I might provide. Even such a request does not exist? What

listen. Adrian shoots me a worried look, and I

away.

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

means he is really, really angry. I used to shiver at that look when I was little, but I’m

want

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