114 Overdose

Scarlett’s POV

Well, I don’t have one.

I talked big, but I didn’t really have a “revenge plan” in my mind. Doing people harm is a huge project, and just thinking about it exhausts me.

“Whatever you want to do, we are here for you,” Aurora says this, only to dart a weird glance at Adrian —

She could only speak for herself and Lilith on that one, but it’s also awkward to specially exclude him from it.

“Yeah!” Adrian pretends he doesn’t understand Aurora’s awkward glance, nodding firmly with a genuine tone, “We are ALL here for you.”

Aurora darts her eyes away, pressing her lips downward as they try to curve up as if having their own minds.

“You are staying with me though, right?” Aurora averts the topic she started, again, “I’m trying to get Lilith to come and live here, too. Her law firm is twenty minutes walk from her, and we can have pillow fights—”

Just within a minute, Aurora glances at Adrian in pure awkwardness twice with a look like she wants to bite off her own tongue. She is really not used to having a conversation with an outsider in our little circle.

clearing his throat to hide

Aurora’s presence, Aurora is trying her best to give a pep talk, immersing in her burning speaker soul, and I’m

is a good time to mention this, or whether I should mention it at all but…” Lilith frowns, twisting her fingers. She is

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of us, physically, but

nt from me and Aurora, she has always felt a bit inferior. She is a straight shooter in the boxing ring, but she can hide a secret like “Sebastian has proposed to Ava”

to yourself?” I remind Lilith, nudging

finally decided to let

up, the way Ava described…about

you mean?” I

can wait,” Aurora cuts in, rubbing my

have to talk about this

Lilith, and after hesitation,

her dead body with my own eyes. If Ava said this, then she lied. Your mom might be a drug user, but she

but I didn’t know it was such a tragic death, and certainly not that she had to watch it herself. I hug my kind,

me feel better. To know one good thing about my mom, not even a good thing,

look into my real family,” I suddenly say,

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