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

with Aurora’s presence, Aurora is trying her best to give a pep talk, immersing in her

know if this is a good time to mention this, or whether I should

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111 Ovenlose

three of us, physically, but she can be the timidest,

inferior. She is a straight shooter in the boxing ring, but she can hide a secret like

you kept it to yourself?” I remind Lilith, nudging

the time when she finally decided to let

doesn’t add up, the

do you mean?”

in, rubbing my shoulders comfortingly,

talk

after hesitation, she takes a deep breath and

‘her face flushed red‘. That’s not what an overdoser looks like. My…my mom overdosed, and I saw her dead body with my own eyes. If Ava said this, then she lied. Your mom

she had to watch it herself. I hug my kind, lovely Lilith, murmuring: “Thanks, that does make me feel better. I’m

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

into my real family,”

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