Chapter 171

Keeping Me Sane 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 I thought he was joking.

I 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,” I tease him, “If you really are worried about her, maybe you should help me figuring out why she’s afriad of me.” I wouldn’t want such a random problem getting in the way of me getting to know her.

I mean, she’s likely a Vanderbilt.

“Maybe because you have been cold to her,” Oliver glares at me, “I mean, what’s that about? I would have doubted if you loved Alice if I didn’t know better.” Am I cold to her? I mean, except for the first time when I thought she bullied my Alice.

I guess I haven’t been exactly friendly to her, but it’s because I didn’t want to rush into anything.

“You never accused me of being cold to Ava.

Why?” I ask Oliver curiously, “I treats them in the same way.” “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.” I frown, trying to think.

Oliver is right.

I try to not expose my suspicious on their identity before I can be sure of anything, but Ava Fuller has been more than friendly to me, when Scarlett Fuller treats me as a stranger, if not less.

She wants to put distance between us, for some reason.

“How did you know?!” I realize the shocking part.

Oliver hasn’t been visiting Ava Fuller with me at 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.

I shouldn’t keep her from coming home just beacuse she is a gold digger but...at this moment, I 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 I 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,” I taunt her, and instantly Oliver nudges me.

Ohh.

It’s things like this? Scarlett glares at me with tears in her purple eyes the eyes that look exactly like Mom.

That thought turns my tone soft easily: “Hmm, what I 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?!” I grab her arm, feeling blood draining from my face.

Shit! I should have gone and checked when Oliver heard some abnormal noise! I 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 I push it to the front line, I watch a guy landing his foot on Lilith’s back, and his kick makes her fly away.

I dash over and catch her, just in time to 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.

I thought he left for Ava Fuller.

What’s he still doing here? “What’s going on?!” I 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 on me are the only thing making me sane 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 lights me up.

“She’s not fucking hurt! She ran and left her friends here to death!” I shout at him, can’t get a hold of my temper.

I wouldn’t even use a heavy tone on Lilith, and what did she do?! She let her get hurt on her behalf?! I could fucking kill her right now! 1