133 My Own Justice

Scarlett’s POV

3 don’t know if it belongs to your mom yet, but that necklace definitely has a story behind it,” Lucas smirks with confidence. “The chain has some rust on it. By the smell left in the case? I’d say…

I hold my breath, and he purses his lips, looking at me with a teasing smirk. I feel an anxiety rush when I realize he is taunting me, “What–71*

“Blood,” He blurts calmly, cutting my outburst out, and giving me another anxiety rush yet again.

“What?!” I shrill

pointing at the door and leading me away from it and closer to the window. Right. It’s

Do drug users spill blood when they are dying?” I can’t sort out a million questions in my mind, “And also, why would a junkie have such a nice necklace? And why would Jack Fuller take it? For money? He does not look like

rolling his eyes and rubbing his hair, like a disappointed teacher. Finally, he takes a deep breath, speaking slowly and clearly as he

Duh?!

detective to begin with! Besides, my brain is completely shut down at the shocking fact that I JUST saw the belongings

Your Mom wasn’t a junkie, she might have died but certainly not of overdose, and from the quality of that necklace? She was not poor.

he lied. I can’t close my shocked jaw, but the facts begin to string up

and lied about where I came from. It makes sense that he guards his study tighter than a prison – he doesn’t want me to look for my family because if Mom was not a poor, overdosed junkie, but

why take the necklace home? If not, then why was he so conveniently there to take me at the one moment when my Mom couldn’t protect me? And most

they…not want

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