She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

138 Scar’s Pilgrimage

Scarlett’s POV

It can’t be Lucas if we are going through the door instead of the window. It has to be me. Even if anyone sees me, it won’t be a crime.

“What took you so long?!” I hiss at him when he drags me to a dark corner. In his hand is an old bronze key of a weird shape. The gate of the villa uses a fingerprint lock, but Jack Fuller’s study still uses one of those old–school locks with a complicated physical key.

What’s he hiding in there?

“This kind of lock is very expensive, one lock with only one key, and the key can’t be duplicated,” Seeing my confusion, Lucas explains, “And to answer your question, it’s because you gave me the wrong password for the phone.”

“What?! It’s not Ava’s birthday?!” I exclaim, “I swear I have seen him using that.”

was, but now it isn’t,” Lucas

to know what

“I don’t plan on stealing his

never stolen anything in my life. I was so nervous that I could barely keep my attention on whatever “conversation” we

YOUR birthday,” Lucas continues, looking at me

shoot him a weird look. Then why

said you didn’t care, and not to tell you if you still care about him,” Lucas grins at me mischievously, “I don’t know what happened between you

the key and the necklace case tight in my hand. What did I say? Never again? Not after one minute and I’m breaking

meet in five minutes by the lake. Even if she returns right after she gets there, it is 15 minutes for you,”

of the corner. I don’t want to 138 Scar’s Pilgrimage get him into trouble. Jack Fuller is not the most forgiving person, and to think he put the highest security in his safe and study, it can only be

it’s a showdown between

entering part was

A thick carpet with ancient patterns covers the whole floor, several floor–to–ceiling bookshelves around the room. One of them is behind the huge desk in the middle. By that bookshelf is a

is the

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