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.

I helped her locate her biological

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

try to

Good story, Jack Fuller.

slowly, looking at Ava right in the eyes, “You will

stop my body from snorting coldly at that.

room.

I no longer do. She lies when she doesn’t even need

look on her face right now: “That

Before she thought she could have a normal life with

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

has been waiting for

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

we can enter his safe all the time.” Jack Fuller guards his safe like a

The Emperor’s

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