Chapter 103

103 Grew Up With Love Scarlett’s POV “Are you sure you are okay? You can cry if you want to Adrian asked for the third time I got back into his car. I told him he didn’t have to wait for me, but he was still where he parked when I came out, just as surprised as I was when he saw me.

I’m not that sad. Not like when I found out about the truth of my “family“, about how each one of them betraded me and wanted to cut things off me. They bought my life for their beloved daughter, what’s so wrong in that?

I’m actually happy now that their daughter is finally cured. They don’t need me anymore.

“Ava is perfectly okay now. Her status is stable,” I tell Adrian, feeling a long–lost lightness, “Maybe they won’t even chase after me if I were to tell them that I’m leaving.”

“She’s cured only by exploiting you!” Adrian rolls his eyes, complaining resentfully “I mean, to think about it, they paid for my life and my education, I would have dealt with them if they straight up told me that the condition would be providing her my blood and bone marrow, or more, your know?” I’m surprised at how my whole life is such a big joke, yet I’m able to laugh at it, genuinely, “For an orphan who might not have a decent future, don’t you think I also got a lot out of it?”

“If they no longer need your blood, then you don’t have to leave in such a hurry,” Adrian suggests with a cautious tone, “You have friends here, and a job, need I remind you?”

“There are so many better stories out there than my flat true love romance!” I lie back into the seat, laughing with him, “From one to ten, how much did your misplaced affection play in that decision? I want to know.”

Adrian shoots me a plaintive glare, but infected by my good mood, he laughs in the end: “...Five....

“I knew it!” I hit him on the shoulder, rolling my eyes to the sky. He puts on a painful look, umbling something about that only got me a ticket to his office, blah, blah, blah.

I can’t hear it. I’m drowning in the lightness of a huge burden off my shoulders. This is the place where I threw out my torn flight tickets with Aurora not so long ago. That time even the bright sun out there in the sky looked dim because I was mourning over my lost freedom.

Now I have got it? Even the black cloud over us looks artistic!

I have got my health, my education and my ability to support myself, my friends who care about me, and a real family waiting for me on the other side of a few–hour–long flight! I have got my freedom, AND got the weight of Ava’s life off my shoulder!

Nothing could ruin such a day because no one could stop me, not even Sebastian.

Goodbye, my first, and ever, love. It wasn’t the best one, but it started with me being saved. I’m glad I grew up with love in my chest, and maybe one day, I could smile when I remember the boy who saved me.

“What happened to your hard?” I ask, suddenly noticed a cut on the joints of his right hand. To look at it closer, his joints all look red.

“Nothing...” Adrian raises his right hand briefly with an indifferent glance, adding when he sees my +25 BONUS suspicious eyes, “Would you believe me if I told you I put my fist through a wall?”

“Because...of me?” I flinch backward, murmuring. Good thing I’m leaving, which would be easier for him to shake off the “phantom limb” of liking me.

Adrian shoots me a resigned look before bursting into laughter, “Just an accident!”

Ohh. I roll my eyes. He totally got mel “Do you think I could risk telling Aurora and Lilith about my leaving?” I pull out my phone, but not dare to dial, “Call me paranoid, but you have no idea...One summer I told ONLY Aurora about an escape, and Jack Fuller found me at night on the same day...”

“It’s fine, I’ll tell them once I land,” I close my phone, making up my mind, “They can come to visit after. They won’t be mad...

right?”

“I’m sure they will understand,” Adrian says, glancing at me, “I don’t think Jack Fuller can reach his hand far enough into the system, but I didn’t book anything so there is nothing to be traced. We will get your ticket over the counter, and everything else you can replace.”

That’s the plan. All my stuff is with Aurora. She can bring them to me whenever it’s convenient for her. This is it, and nothing can go wrong!

“Miss Fuller?”

I froze when a guy in a black suit and sunglasses approached me by the gate of the airport right after I got off Adrian’s car when he went parking.

“Boss told me to wait for you.”

Blood drains from my face.