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.

by her shoulders, and enters the security line. Not too many are in front of them, but it’s

over.

when he tried

me, but he is

of loans from mine every year. Without my help, he is nothing. I knew he allowed both of his daughters to be close to me for it, and I didn’t

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dare to cross me.

you know what this means to Ava?” Jack Fuller manages to keep his tone calm, but cold

cured, and if Scarlett wants to go to 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

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

Fuller observes me with his foxy eyes. After a moment, he sighs with a slow nod: “You care about your wife, I respect that. But you don’t know what you are sending her

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

the old fox the moment I open my

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

Not like this.

taking Jack’s side, and hate me for it. And she still has

to stay.