NovelEnglish098 Room To Breath
Scarlett’s POV
Is there a kinder soul in this world? | look at Adrian, envying Aurora secretly because she is being loved by such a
good person.
But | can’t. “I want to be your friend, Adrian Dunn,” | shake my head, feeling pity in my chest, “So | can’t be such
a burden to you. You understand, don’t you?”
Adrian looks atplaintively. He understands, | know Talking to him has been so easy
“You are insultingby implying that it takes a lot ofto protect just one girl,” Adrian says half- jokingly, “I
can’t protect you well if you leave, especially to a place that far away. But here | can promise that they can’t get
another drop of blood of yours if you don’t want them to.”
That's really sweet and generous, but | can’t put such a weight on Adrian. | feel guilty enough taking so much of
his help as it is. Out of a misunderstanding no less. It’s not right.
“I can take care of myself now,” | say as Adrian holds out his arm to block the elevator door for me. He definitely
did that on purpose! | laugh at him, “Including holding my own door!”
“Exactly,” Adrian laughs with me, “I know you can, but it doesn’t mean | can’t do that for a lady, right?”
| sigh. He doesn’t know the Fullers, not well enough. | don’t want to drag him into this mud pond.
We walk to his car, and he pulls it open for me, his eyes determined.
“Lettell you what happened last time, and you can make a better decision,” | hold the door but not going in.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt| wish he can givea good solution, because | surely don’t have one, “The last tAva went to the hospital,
was because she cto my birthday party uninvited.
“It was the third year | married Sebastian. Just a small thing with only him, Aurora, and a few other of my friends.
| told her to leave, and Sebastian toldhe would leave with Ava. So | let her stay. Later she draggedinto a
room and cut her own finger with a magazine, laughing atuntil she started screaming and got everyone
over, saying it was an ‘accident’, but that | was the one who it her.”
It's just one piece of dark memories of her among a million.
*Jack Fuller got 400cc out ofthat day,” | say as that dark day resurfaces in my mind.
The feeling of life drained fromis so horrifying. The powerless, the suffocation wokeup in the middle of
the night tafter time.
“Of course, the day was ruined, and Sebastian stayed in the hospital with her that night when I almost fainted at
hall alone. | dare not to, because | don’t know if anyone could findbefore | die. The joke is, she didn’t
even need that much blood.
That was the first birthday | spent with Sebastian, and also, the only.”
Adrian opens his eyes wide in shock, angry as he grunts: “You had every right to refuse their request!”
“Did 1?” | laugh at how innocent he is, or rather, how simple his life is. Maybe for a kid who was loved, it was that
simple for him.
098 Room To Breath
But not for me.
I laugh as I look up so the tears won't fall. The low, dark ceiling of the parking lot looks exactly like that day, a
day when my whole world crushed down on me, makingsuffocate
"How could | refuse? It was MY
husband who draggedto the
hospital, scoldingin front of the
emergency room (yee fabs)
“ddd” Was shouting at
e about what a cold-blooded
monster | was for hurting my fragile
sister, and my mom cries on the side,
her sorrowful tears turned all the
nurses against me. No one even
wanted to help me, whether they
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Adrian grips the door so hard that his fingers turn white. In the end, he couldn't givea better answer. | really
wish he had one. Id love to hear that.
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“| can't refuse them so long as I'm
still in this city,” | shake my op
wish | could. The tit, Ca dnt
Hay Ear rom to breathe on the
surface of this earth, if | turned and
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Not like | had any room to breathe before that, but... that was the only family | knew back then.
“If you really want to help, Adrian,
then trust that | can take cargo
myself ask ofhimi fils need you
t§ block off Sebastian and the Fullers
long enough so | can get on a plane.”
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