SCARLETTI’m sitting at the visitor’s area, watching other families visiting their loved ones in prison while I wait for Dad to arrive.I still can’t believe I am no longer a virgin. I know it’s normal for people my age to have sex and it’s not really a big deal but after waiting three years in my last relationship only to lose it to a cold yet hot and handsome stranger like Damian in a flash, it just feels….I don’t even know the word for it.I mean this wasn’t the plan, the plan was to give it to someone I absolutely love and adore, who feels the same way about me. I wonder if Damian can fall in love with a girl like me though.I mean he’s like the undisputed king of the city and I’m just Scarlett Madden whose father is in prison. What am I even thinking? I can’t fall in love with someone like Damian, he’s just too cold and not even sweet or charming. I wonder what I took that night to make me come onto him that strongly.“Earth to Scarlett,” I hear dad’s voice before I sense his hand

SCARLETT“Please have a seat Miss Scarlett, the old master will be down with you shortly,” the butler to Richard Cole, Trevor’s grandfather says.I spoke to Lexi about the mole dad talked about and apparently Dad didn’t have concrete evidence of it. It was only a hunch because when he and the lawyers were going through the files, he saw a lot of transactions that he didn’t authorise but his signature and the company’s seal were on them, which can only mean one thing, they were forged.His trial is only days away and I cannot bear to see him sentenced to prison for a long time because of something he didn’t do, so I am here to plead Dad’s case with Grandpa Richard, if he won’t give him a full pardon, at least just a little extension of the hearing date to buy us some more time.I thought of going to Damian at first but I don’t even know how to face him and he made it clear the last time that without proof, he wouldn’t help.I admire the living room just as one of the servants brings me

SCARLETTGrandpa Richard turns to him. “Now’s not the time Damian, this silly girl desecrated your mother’s ash.”“Your wife,” Damian replies in a hostile tone, his eyes hard at his father. “That woman was no mother to me.”The two stare at each other coldly for some brief seconds before Ashley breaks the tension with her shrill voice. “We’re not trying to fool grandpa Uncle Da-”“I’m not your fucking uncle,” Damian scowls at Ashley and she shudders, moving behind Trevor for cover but he moves away from her, putting some distance between them.Damian fixes his intimidating gaze on Trevor and the confident boy I used to know who could look anyone in the eyes and say whatever, looks down. I don’t want to say it but it looks like Trevor fears him, even that day at the meeting when Damain just asked him to zip it, Trevor quietly obeyed.“The other day if I recall correctly, it was you hung up on her and not the other way round, so why would she want to hurt this….thing?” Damian asks Trev

SCARLETTI cannot help the pang of guilt that I feel in my heart as his cold judgemental eyes rake over my figure. I know how this looks but he has it all wrong.“I didn’t know you two were related. I didn’t even know who you were until that night we met,” I say calmly, looking straight into his eyes.He scoffs, taking a long drag of his cigarette, blowing the fume on my face on purpose, making me gag slightly.“Maybe it was after that night you devised your revenge plan. You do not fool me,” He says in that same low and cold tone. His eyes are sharp and dangerous at the same time, glaring at me.Why does he believe that I would give my first time to him just to spite Trevor? Wouldn’t that just be a shameful thing to do? Where’s the masterful revenge plan in that? Everything that ever happened between us was a coincidence, none of it was planned.“Listen to me Damian. I know how this looks but I promise you that’s not the truth. If I slept with you just to get back at Trevor, don’t you

SCARLETT“You’re not the only one who went to school young lady, you don’t have to make such a mess because you’re reading,” Mom says, tip-toeing through the pile of books I had littered on the floor.I glance at her and turn my attention back to the book I had open in front of me. I have a very important test coming up tomorrow and I have been studying all week, getting little to no sleep.I was shocked when I logged into my student portal to see my grades had slipped by thirty eight percent and we’re already halfway into the semester. Every single point I can score is important right now, even half a point will go a long way.I know she’s still in there somewhere, the bright girl who always topped her class effortlessly and did it in style, getting perfect scores all the way.She’s still in there right? Somewhere inside me, or has she been drowned out by all the recent troubles of my life?There’s only one way to find out and it begins by acing this test. It doesn’t help that it’s pr