She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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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?!" | hiss at him when he dragsto 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 gavethe wrong password for the

phone."

"What?! It's not Ava's birthday?!" | exclaim, "I swear | have seen him using that."

"Well, maybe it was, but now it isn't," Lucas has a weird look on his face, "do you

want to know what it is?"

"It's okay," | wave my hand, "I don't plan on stealing his phone all the time!"

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| have never stolen anything in my life. | was so nervous that | could barely keep my attention on whatever

"conversation" we had. Never again!

"It's YOUR birthday," Lucas continues, looking atcalmly.

| shoot him a weird look. Then why ask at all?!

"Adrian toldto tell you if you said you didn't care, and not to tell you if you still care about him," Lucas grins

atmischievously, "I don't know what happened between you two but... pity for him."

"...thanks?" | frown, gripping the key and the necklace case tight in my hand. What did | say? Never again? Not

after one minute and I'm breaking and entering again! I'm not built to be a criminal...

"Relax. | texted your sister to meet in five minutes by the lake. Even if she returns right after she gets there, it is

15 minutes for you," Lucas glances around with a resigned look, "But | can do it if you are having trouble-"

"It's okay, | can do it," | take a deep breath and cout of the corner. | don't want to

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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 me. The worst-case

scenario, it's a showdown between us.

The entering part was actually easy.

His study is huge with a complicated layout. 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 painting hanging on the wall. Behind it is the safe.

| have been to his study countless times, but only a handful without Jack Fuller in it, and never before at night.

I'm only returning something, yet | feel like Jack Fuller will brage in at any moment and arrest me...

He might not be a monster, but he didn't leave a father's image in my head either.

The password Ava set for the safe is a string of random characters. Putting them in, | finally hear what Lucas said

toearlier. Adrian doesn't wantto make the smistake, but | don't know if I'm feeling anything about

it. | was too nervous to think, but what does a password mean? It's not like Sebastian knew | would steal his

phone, so it wasn't for me. | doubt anyone besides Ava could have access to his phone, so maybe using my

birthday is like, using the one password that Ava can't guess?

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| don't want to think in the direction that | shouldn't be thinking. Leaving him was the right choice to do. | don't

want to go back. | can't go back.

At most, I'll let him in on the baby thing - if he can prove he wouldn't put Ava over the baby's safety.

Having a baby is a completely new, strange feeling. It's both the furthest and closest distance two people can

be. I don't know him yet, but | feel like no one in the world matters tomore than him. Not even his father

who gavehim. | thought | cared about the baby because | cared about Sebastian. But no. | care about him

because of him, and even before he is born, | already know there is nothing in the world | wouldn't do for him.

My pilgrimage to Jack Fuller's safe took only 3 minutes. Now I'm here, in front of the safe that has kept the only

trace of my mom's connection withfor years, | touch the dent my Mom's necklace left in the case, wondering

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Hasty steps approach, and then someone turns the doorknob frantically-

"Scarlett?! | know you are in there!"

It's Ava!

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