She Approved the Split He Fell Apart Novel

134 His Password

Scarlett’s POV

“You sure you don’t want to detonate this bomb in the Fullers‘ faces?” Lucas throws the necklace case up and down, “Last chance.”

Biting my lips, I answer in the end: “No.”

“Did you hear that?” Lucas pulls out his phone, asking.

What the–?! I charge up to him, and before I can throw a demand, he turns his phone, and on his screen is Adrian’s face.

“He is my employer,” Lucas grins at me. Shooting him a glare, I take his phone. I’m not really against Adrian’s participation, but not when he is busy pursuing Aurora, and definitely not in this way!

“I just called him to check up on you when you entered. Sorry,” Seeing my frustration, Adrian quickly explains, “I’m not monitoring over you, I swear.”

“I guess I could use a friend’s advice…” I roll my eyes, can’t stay mad at the slippery fox, “but…I already made up my mind on this one.”

“This is the fastest way to get a result. I know a pretty good lawyer, and maybe we can hear his opinion on this first?”

“Do I have to make the decision right now?” I hesitate, staring at the necklace case.

Adrian looks at me, not speaking for a moment.

If I decide to let the law handle this, then I will have to keep the case and hand it over. I don’t know how much an empty case can prove. Even with the necklace’s weight added, I doubt if I could see any result in years. Not to mention the kind of top–notch lawyers Jack Fuller has that I don’t.

“Is the lawsuit what’s bothering you…?” Adrian asks, adding insightfully, “…or is there something else?”

He said his question in a statement tone. He knows I have other concerns.

“My family…” I don’t want to talk, but his patient waiting forces me to, “my REAL family. They would know if this thing turns into a lawsuit.”

“Is that a problem? I thought you wanted to find them.”

I do. But not in this way. Not putting myself out and waiting to see if this time I get lucky. I want to see them first, and make a decision.

“They never came to look for me…”

The moment I speak, Adrian has the look of hearing all my thoughts. Quickly he nods, with a full set of new plans formed already: “You are right. This time we should do it right. If you can wait with patience, then there is no problem. We will put everything back, not alarm Jack Fuller, and look into it by ourselves. Lucas, you need to–”

“Yeah, got it,” Lucas puts the necklace case back into his belt, “back in the safe it goes!”

“Sorry,” I give him an apologetic look, “I–”

134 His Password

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“No need to be sorry. It is your decision to make, and you should do what feels right to you,” Lucas grins at me brightly, “I’ll just double Adrian’s bill for the extra trip, no biggie!”

Ummm—

“He is joking,” Adrian rolls his eyes, making a face as Lucas jumps onto the railing on the balcony, “He begged me for this job. He is bored to death living our normal city life–”

Lucas is back.

“What’s wrong?” Adrian asks.

“The window is locked,” Lucas shakes his head with a serious look, “Maybe a maid went in cleaning?”

I exchange a worried look with Adrian: “Or maybe…” And we see the answer in each other’s eyes–

Ava locked it.

“Could she know about us taking the case?” I ask, no longer able to sit calmly when I think about that possibility, “Maybe she saw you? Maybe she went back to put back the necklace and found the case missing? Maybe–”

“Calm down, Scar,” Adrian cuts off my ramble, “Ava Fuller is not the smartest nut. If she knew you have been there, she would have made a fuss about it, or told on you to dear Daddy already. If that case, then we can’t do much, but if not, then we can assume that it was just an accident, and we can still amend.”

Okay. I take a deep breath, “I can take it back from the front door,” I suggest, “she has the key but she puts her purses around all the time. I need only three minutes, in and out.”

“But if she finds out, then she would know that you went in,” Lucas warns, “even if she just got suspicious, you would be her first suspect, you know that.”

“Then we need her to be occupied for that three minutes,” I pull open the door for a slit, searching for Sebastian, “Lucas, I’ll get you Sebastian’s phone, and you will send Ava a text, telling her to wait for him by the lake. Her birthday is May, 24th.”

“May, 24th?” Lucas frowns in confusion.

“His password.”

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