NovelEnglish171 KeepingSane
Damian's POV
"What's going on?" Oliver frowns in the direction of the bar.
He has been staring in that direction ever since Scarlett Fuller left. He said he was into her, but | thought he was
joking. | mean, they barely knew each other. Even if he is interested in her, it can only be so shallow.
"Nothing is going on, it's a bar and she is an adult," | tease him, "If you really are worried about her, maybe you
should helpfiguring out why she's afriad of me."
| wouldn't want such a random problem getting in the way ofgetting to know her. | mean, she's likely a
Vanderbilt.
"Maybe because you have been cold to her," Oliver glares at me, "I mean, what's that about? | would have
doubted if you loved Alice if | didn't know better." Am I cold to her?
| mean, except for the first twhen | thought she bullied my Alice. | guess | haven't been exactly friendly to
her, but it's because | didn't want to rush into anything. "You never accusedof being cold to Ava. Why?" | ask
Oliver curiously, "I treats them in the sway."
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"Ava is too smart to leave a conversation cold with any man who she deems valuable," Oliver snorts
condesendingly at me, "I can't believe you are blind to that."
| frown, trying to think.
Oliver is right. | try to not expose my suspicious on their identity before | can be sure of anything, but Ava Fuller
has been more than friendly to me, when Scarlett Fuller treatsas a stranger, if not less. She wants to put
distance between us, for sreason. "How did you know?!" | realize the shocking part. Oliver hasn't been
visiting Ava Fuller withat all!
"Let's just say, if anyone knows her true color, it's me," Oliver smirks at me, "I had a crush on her too when we
just met, and she was the sweetest girl until she learned about my parents." Then he adds: "Yeah, it was that
obvious. She spends no effort on people she can afford to hurt."
His words raise a gross taste in my mouth.
Please, don't let Ava Fuller be my Alice. | shouldn't keep her from coming hjust beacuse she is a gold digger
but...at this moment, | don't know what's worse to forever condolence the image of a perfect daughter, or
getting her back only to see her grown into an apple far from the tree.
My Alice wouldn't have turned into a woman like Ava Fuller if we didn't lose her...if | didn't lose her.
""Sebastian!"
Out of nowhere, Scarlett Fuller dashes out of the crowd, throwing herself onto the table and shouting before she
can even see that her husband is no longer on the table.
"He left right after you did," | taunt her, and instantly Oliver nudges me. Ohh. It's things like this? Scarlett
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glares atwith tears in her purple eyes the eyes that look exactly like Mom. That thought turns my tone soft
easily: "Hmm, what | mean is-"
"Help!" Scarlett grabs my sleeve, begging in tears, "Lilith is in trouble! She's your pet, no? You have to save her!"
"Where is she?!" | grab her arm, feeling blood draining from my face. Shit! | should have gone and checked when
Oliver heard sabnormal noise! | pull Scarlett up and dash in the direction she came. She stumbles beside
me, giving directions. Not really necessary. The noise is getting louder with painful shouts now. Fuck!
The moment | push it to the front line, | watch a guy landing his foot on Lilith's back, and his kick makes her fly
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmaway. | dash over and catch her, just in tto catch the fist of the guy thrown after her before I twist his arm
and break it.
To my surprise though, he is the last one. A bunch of men are now lying on the ground, with Sebastian Knight
standing on the other side of the battlefield.
| thought he left for Ava Fuller. What's he still doing here?
"What's going on?!" | step on the guy's broken arm, "Who are you?!"
"They are here to get Scar!" Lilith hides in my arms, telling on them with a pout. The fierce look on her a moment
ago is nowhere to be found.
Her trust and dependence onare the only thing makingsane at the moment.
"Are you okay?!" Sebastian Knight comes running toward Scarlett, checking her up and down, "Did you get hurt
anywhere?"
His worried tone lightsup.
"She's not fucking hurt! She ran and left her friends here to death!" | shout at him, can't get a hold of my temper.
| wouldn't even use a heavy tone on Lilith, and what did she do?! She let her get hurt on her behalf?! | could «
fucking kill her right now! 1
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