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, hopefully

Ava lowers her eyes.

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

with that family,” Ava 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.

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

body from snorting coldly at that. The only thing that saved me was the

room.

right. Only Sebastian would believe 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

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

she was healed. Before she thought she could have

up. She said she didn’t know. Whether a lie or truth, she doesn’t have the

has been waiting for

me inside the room, checking oût both sides before he

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.

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