132 The Emperor’s New Necklace

Scarlett’s POV

“I don’t know,” Ava blurts almost Instantly without thinking, then her tone turns suspiciously, “…why are you asking?”

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“Why do you think?” Sebastian lets out a light laugh, but if I’m not mistaken, the laugh does not reach his eyes. I have never seen him treat Ava with such an attitude.

Ava pouts her lips, staring at Sebastian with her deer eyes wide open, her tone timid like a tamed sister–in- law: “You are asking for…her? Are you two…getting back together?”

direction again: “Yes,

Ava lowers her eyes.

her biological parents,”

with that family,” Ava murmurs with a scared face, “says the junkies will strangle us like vines if they found out that their daughter got

they would try to save me

Good story, Jack Fuller.

age,” Sebastian nods slowly, looking at Ava right in the eyes, “You will help me though, right?

body from snorting coldly at that. The only

room.

such a lie. If I felt pity for her seeing herself as Pinocchio before, I no longer do. She lies when she doesn’t even need to. She could just outright say that she was

cocooned look on her face

she could have

back up. She said

been waiting

pulls me inside the room, checking oût both

you even want it? It’s not like we can enter his safe all the time.” Jack Fuller guards his safe like a dragon with his mountain of gold.

Emperor’s New

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