She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

108 The Sound Of A Heart Breaking

Sebastian’s POV

“…what do you mean…?” Scar’s voice shakes with fear when I get close. She shoots me an indifferent glance like she doesn’t see me at all. Her eyes are red in tears, and her fists shaking.

What could Jack Fuller possibly say to her? She wasn’t this upset even when she gave me those files.

“You have always thought I faked your adoption file,” Jack Fuller says with a heavy sigh, “You were right. I didn’t adopt you from the orphanage. I found you in North Dakota, in your mother’s cold arms.”

“You are lying!” Scar hisses at Jack Fuller like a hurt little kitten. Her ears would fly backward if she had any. She shakes her head and tears fall down but she doesn’t even feel that. She turns to grab Adrian’s shirt with a wronged look, and I glare over at Adrian.

“Take her out of here,” I tell Adrian before I turn to Jack Fuller, “You don’t have to do it here, not like this.”

I don’t know about Scar’s past, but Jack’s opening doesn’t sound like a nice story.

security line. Not too many are in front of them, but it’s not like they

over.

a step sideways, blocking him when he tried to follow,” You are calling

me, but he is not utter

I knew he allowed both of his daughters to be close to me for it, and I didn’t care to help out Ava’s

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Sound

dare to cross me.

keep his tone calm, but cold with a sullen look is the best

another city, it’s within her rights,” I answer, hearing my voice as cold as his. I understood him exploiting Scar a bit before. His daughter was ill, and he wanted his other daughter to help out. Not the nicest action, but it was out of love. I counted on Scar for the same reason, but

Ava is cured now, and she can wait in lines. like everyone else, if anything

what you are sending her to. Her junkie father abandoned her mother, who died under a bridge with

at me right in the eyes: “I’ll leave the decision to you. I won’t

this round with the old fox the moment I

he “intervenes“, he will break the cold, dark truth to her in the most humiliating, devastating way right here. If I do

Not like this.

taking Jack’s side, and hate

to stay.