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.

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

over.

him when he tried to follow,” You are

glares at me, but he is

help, he is nothing. 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 dad. But he

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dare to cross me.

his tone calm,

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

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

slow nod: “You care about your wife, I respect that. But you don’t know what you are sending her to. Her junkie father

takes a step back, looking at me right in the eyes: “I’ll leave the decision

know I lost this round with the old fox the moment I open

his cold calculation. He wants ME to stop Scar. If he “intervenes“, he will break the cold, dark truth to her in the most humiliating, devastating way right here. If I do it, then I won’t tell

Not like this.

will see me taking Jack’s side, and hate me

to stay.