She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked

Damian's POV She knows.

Scarlett knew that she was my baby sister. She knew I was looking for her, and she watched me going after the wrong girl, probably even helped in that. She knows everything and she chose to keep them secrets. That realization aches me to my core.

I can't even begin to comprehend how she would hate me so much when I'm basically a stranger to her. So much so that she wouldn't even come home to wealth, fame, and her own father?

I thought Ava was Alice for like a day. But the more investigation comes back about their past, the clearer it got: Ava was the favored, the spoiled, the bully, and the liar. A stupid one no less. All this time she has been trying all she could to get my attention. She comes off as the tamed daughter, even with a lousy story about how she was adopted, too.

Even if I can overlook Scarlett's adoption history, and the fact that Scarlett appeared conveniently after Mom's car crash in North Dakota, I wouldn't have ruled her out just for her purple eyes.

Those were Mom's eyes. I should have suspected something the first time we met.

I didn't expose any of that because Jack Fuller is not stupid. He is the opposite. He is the most crafty I have seen in years, and he is targeting me.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

Ava's acting was lousy, but what shocked me was how Jack Fuller could back up that story perfectly--

Secret adoption files of Ava Fuller, her fingerprint from the blood stain on Mom's necklace...a real, certified, positive DNA test result.

All to prove a story so unlikely: that Ava Fuller could be my sister, even with Scarltt right beside her.

It would be too stupid a move from a fox like Jack Fuller. It IS a trap. Too obvious a trap. It's almost like he wants to lure me in the wrong direction, but with a maze designed by a three-year-old, just so he could laugh when I "crack" it and be like, fine, you win.

In a win, people overlook the process for the results. That's what he wants.

He wants me to find out "in hardship" that Scarlett was the real lost daughter, and hopefully in the happiness of getting to the truth, and anger at his little lie, I would take Scarlett away and cut all connection with him.

The moment I realized that, I started

digging into his past. He has been in

this city and this city only for the past twenty years. If he has nothing to hide, the right move would be demanding a huge check for raising my little princess. Even if he was worried about the mistreatment over the years, it's not like he physically hurt Scar in any way I could sue. So if there is any reason driving him to pull such a trick, it comes from his past even before.

I soon found something when his "maze" exposed the right direction in front of me--

He didn't just take my Alice from North Dakota and fake her files as if she had been in this city since forever. He was IN North Dakota when the accident happened!

If I didn't know him, I would probably assume that he found an orphan with "gold blood" and he took her home for his own daughter who needs to live off other's blood for life. But knowing him?

I can't overlook the possibility that he might be involved in the accident.

I don't have any legitimate evidence, but I can't imagine any other reason why he would go to such lengths to lie to me.

Mom's necklace has blood on it, but he said it was with Alice when he adopted her. There wasn't anyone's fingerprint on that necklace besides his and Ava Fuller's. The puzzling part is, how did her fingerprint print into the blood that has dried for years?

"Damian! Please, I can't bear losing

the one thing Mom left me!” Ava Fuller jumps into my arms, and it takes all my willpower to not push her away I don't know why she would use tricks to lure guys like tears, winks, or like this -- pressing her body into mine -- on her supposed brother. Has she never taken an acting class before?

I don't think she would really throw away a necklace that is worth billions, but I'd love the chance to dig into the backyard of the Fuller's, literally and metaphorically.

I don't know why Scarlett doesn't want to come home, but I have got time to turn her around. It just might be better that she won't expose the Fuller's lies yet, because I don't want her to get dragged into my war with Jack Fuller anyway.