LOGINScar's POV"Mother is resting."Emily Green receives me.What surprises me is that Ava is there too—and is sticking to Scott like a butterfly around a flower. Emily has the air of a matriarch about her, the kind of society lady that money has cultivated and polished to perfection."In modern times, it's really not the adults' place to interfere in the children's affairs," Emily says, pulling me down onto the sofa beside her, watching Ava and Scott from a distance. "I know the Knight family's old lady wants you and Scott together, but—"I think I understand what Emily means.Emily means no.She doesn't want me with Scott, because she already has her own choice.Watching Ava sit beside Scott, laughing until she is bent over, I feel only a shade of darkness in my heart."You know she's Sebastian's wife, right?" I have no interest in Scott, but I'm not willing to watch him walk into Ava's trap either.But then again, there's no reasoning with matters of the heart. After all, there is stil
Scar's POVI'd love to see how he plans to wash the Fullers clean this time.Sebastian spread the file open on the table between us."His name is Robert Hayes. Forty-seven when it happened. Unemployed. No fixed address." He turned a page, pointing at a grainy photo of a man with hollow cheeks and eyes that looked like they'd given up a long time ago. "He was driving his own car that night. A fifteen-year-old sedan. He sold it for scrap two weeks after the accident.""And nobody ever found him?" The question came out sharper than I intended."The police had no witnesses, no plate number, no description. It was ruled an accident with an unidentified driver, and after a year, the file went cold." Sebastian's voice was calm. Steady. Like he was reading a weather report instead of describing the death of my mother. "I found him through a paper trail—scrap yard records, old insurance claims. Took me eight months.""Eight months." I didn't kn
Scar's POVWhat?Sebastian repeats again. I watch his lips move, but I couldn't process the information. After all this time, and all this effort? Even Silco couldn't dig up the truth, and Sebastian just so easily...Found it?"What...what do you mean...?" I take over the file and try to read, but my brain refuses to process anything, "You found her, Anna? -- you found...who is this?"I frown, staring at the strange face on the photo.Not Jack Fuller. Not Anna Fuller. Not anyone I know."It wasn't Anna Fuller," Sebastian says with a light tone."I know this is not Anna. He's a guy," I frown, demanding, "Did Anna Fuller hire him? Why would she give her own car to a hired gun? Where is he? I need to talk to him! Is he arrested? Could you prove the link between him and--""Scar! Breathe!"I inhale instantly -- Silco's medical team has been training me with this. A simple clear command and I breathe. I forget breathin
Scar's POVLilith dragged Damian out.I would have stopped her, but from the look on Lilith's face, she was more nervous than angry --The kind of nervous when Lilith first met Damian.When Lilith was mad about that guy.I could never get what happened between Damian and Lilith 3 years ago out of Lilith's mouth. That woman has the tightest string on her lips. I thought it was because Lilith hated Damian, and didn't want to get things messy between me and Damian, but now...It looked like it was because Lilith still had hope in Damian.Unlike before when I left Sebastian.I look up, and Alice is sitting on his lap. For a split second, I almost couldn't tell between reality and a dream I used to have all the time--A peaceful, simple dinner as a family, with Sebastian and our son...or a little girl.Am I still trapped in that hell, and all this is nothing but a moment of weakness where my brain was tired out by the torture, and hoaxed this moment to relax?"...Scar?"I blink, and the so
Scar's POV"I have missed you so much, Daddy!" Alice bounces on Sebastian's lap with fiery anticipation in her eyes.Sebastian shoots a cautious glance in my direction and I look down, pretending I wasn't there.As much as I know Lilith is only using Sebastian as a shield, I don't know how to deal with the scene of Sebastian with a child calling him "daddy". If our child didn't die...I stop myself from approaching the deep dark hole that would swallow me whole: "Damian, if a woman says no, then it means no. It doesn't mean 'I don't want to see you, so please go stalk my daughter without me knowing'."Damian's hurtful look darkened another layer. He peels his scary stare off Alice and turns to me with a wronged tone, "You promised that you would help me with Lilith!""..." I... might have said something like that."I thought she was exchanging texts with you only last week," Sebastian holds his menu open for Alice -- the ice cream page, but his words were for Damian: "Only a week and
Damian’s POVFive years ago, I slept with Lilith.It was an accident. I was already in love with her by then, but she only saw me as her boss. After all, I'd given her her first job, and I was the one who showed her the ropes at the firm. I hadn't planned on moving that fast—but that night, I was drugged.She was with me, I knew. She said yes, I asked. She enjoyed the night, at least. When I woke up, she was beside me.But then she left, abruptly.In my memory, she didn't resist. But maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part, because after that day, Lilith never talked to me again. She left the city, and changed her number. The third time I found her contact and she'd changed her number again, I finally realized—maybe the person she was running from was me.All these years, I knew Sebastian had been in touch with her. But when she said
Scarlett’s POVWell, I don’t have one.I talked big, but I didn’t really have a “revenge plan” in my mind. Doing people harm is a huge project, and just thinking about it exhausts me.“Whatever you want to do, we are here for you,” Aurora says this, only to dart a weird glance at Adrian --She could onl
Scarlett’s POVI don’t want to get into an argument now. I’m too scared to be so close to an abyss that my limbs are all freezing. Besides, I don’t want to lower myself to the level of sabotaging another just to survive, though she might deserve it.“Did you know all these?” Liam Ryan turns to me with
The man grabs her wrist. He is not pulling her away, but his power stops her from closing her claw, easily. Ava sighs, looking up in her watery deer eyes. She is not faking this time. She can’t resist power. She can’t resist this man who could dominate in any situation.“You are enjoying this?” The
“Sebastian, please. You know today is important to mom,” In the end, Ava softens her voice, putting on her innocent victim act. After all, that’s the role she has been practicing her full life, “Mom sees Mrs. Green as her own granny, and they haven’t seen each other in decades. I just want to make







