She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked

128 Battle Horn

Scarlett's POV

Sebastian left after my outburst that night. I think I hurt him after all. Rip the band-aid, right? He never comes again after that, and I had a week in peace. No annoying Ex, no Ava, and no news.

In the end, our news didn't make it to the front page. Not even the last page or any page. Jack Fuller secretly reached out to my cameraman. only on the second day, proposing to buy out the video. And though the cameraman raised the price three times after a deal was made, Jack Fuller budged over and over again.

I know because he wasn't just any cameraman, he was one of Adrian's best friends, a veteran from Afghanistan, and now my bodyguard.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

My homemade little video was sold at the price of fifty grand. I think I could push it even further than that, but we already got what we wanted -- to test out Jack Fuller's attitude-

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He went out on a limb to keep my name off the news, even though Ava would loved painting me as the worst adopted sister of all time.

My family is definitely still out there, and for some reason, Jack Fuller is afraid of them!

Because he stole me from my family? Or maybe he purchased me from them, and he doesn't want his customer experience tracked.

I will find out which is which.

Jack and Anna Fuller are out today, and today is my chance. Ava is up to something. I know because the whole house has been restless the minute the adults left.

"The money is in," Sitting on the window frame with a leg curved up, Lucas waves his phone at me, "Should I send him the video now?"

Lucas didn't want to take the money, but Adrian didn't want the transaction to be recorded on my account.

I sit up from my bag of chips, licking my fingers before I wipe with a tissue. Then I put my hand on the doorknob as I nod at him: "Yeah, send it."

He makes a few clicks before waving me the screen: "I don't really think-

"Three, two, one!" I count down before I pull open my door, and Ava almost falls over because she has her ear on my door.

Huh. I knew she wouldn't wait for too long before coming for another battle after her dear Daddy bought out the video with her worst image recorded, but I didn't think she would actually put her ear against my door. "The next time you pull off shit like this, I don't mind making another short movie for you," I warn Ava, leaving the door open.

Lucas jumps off the window frame quietly, picking up his camera on his shoulder.

Instantly Ava behaves.

"I'm having a party at home tonight," Ava folds her arms, "and you are not invited."

Lucas opens the cap of the camera.

"What?!" Ava fluffs at Lucas's threatening move, "It's MY party and I can't even decide who to invite?!"

"I don't WANT to be at your stupid party to begin with," I roll my eye at her, "I'll stay in YOUR room, quietly. Don't come knocking."

Shocked and suspicious, Ava left. She didn't have much of a reason to

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stay cause I didn't give her any. I wanted this.

"Seriously? We just let her go like that?" Lucas frowns, glaring at the door long after Ava leaves, "I mean, I have heard about mean girls, but this one is something."

"Yes, we are letting her go because she is going to be our alibi," I laugh at his frowning, "After we go into Jack Fuller's study, dear Ava is going to prove that I have been in my room this whole time."

"I really don't think you should go through with your balcony-break-in plan," Lucas whispers the last four words, sticking his head out of the window to check, "I mean, Adrian told me about your condition." Falling off from the second floor won't be lethal to me, but definitely to the baby.

"I need to check if Jack Fuller has changed the password to his safe, and if he did, then I need to figure out the password and find out what's changed inside-"

"I can do all that for you," Lucas cuts in, "I'm here to protect you, remember?"

"But I also need to look for what he took from my mom," I see

Sebastian as my enemy, but I know that man doesn't lie. If he says that Jack Fuller took something from my Mom, then more likely than not he did. And I'm getting it back.