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.”
it was, but now it isn’t,” Lucas has a weird look on his
to know
don’t plan on
so nervous that I could barely keep
YOUR birthday,” Lucas continues, looking at me
look. Then why ask
care, and not to tell you if you still care about him,” Lucas grins at me mischievously,
gripping the key and the necklace case tight in my hand. What did I say? Never again? Not after one minute and I’m breaking and entering again! I’m not built to be a
she gets there, it is 15 minutes
out of the corner. I don’t want to 138 Scar’s Pilgrimage get him into trouble.
it’s a showdown between
entering part was actually
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.
is
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