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?”

in my direction again: “Yes, hopefully

Ava lowers her eyes.

she might forgive me if I helped her locate her biological parents,” Sebastian continues as if not seeing Ava’s

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

try to save

Good story, Jack Fuller.

what age,” Sebastian nods slowly, looking at Ava right in the eyes,

coldly at that. The only thing that saved me was the

room.

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

herself. She has the cocooned look on her face right now: “That

she thought she could have

for the staircase and sneak back up. She said she didn’t know. Whether

has been waiting

the moment I enter. He pulls me inside the room, checking oût both sides before

it? It’s not like we can enter his safe all the time.” Jack

The Emperor’s New

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