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?”

glances in my direction again: “Yes,

Ava lowers her eyes.

if I helped her locate her biological

junkies will

maybe they would try to save me

Good story, Jack Fuller.

their children taken, no matter at what age,” Sebastian nods slowly, looking at Ava right in the eyes, “You will help

my body from snorting coldly at that. The only thing that

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 jealous and that wouldn’t diminish his love for her even by

look on her face right now: “That

healed. Before she thought she could have a

Ava’s attention on him, I turn for the staircase and sneak back up. She said she didn’t know. Whether a lie or truth, she

been

a mysterious look the moment I enter. He pulls me inside the room, checking oût

we can enter his safe all the time.” Jack Fuller guards his safe like a dragon with his mountain of gold. He spends most of

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