novelxo Chapter 214 Merciful Mask
"Gabriel," Scar suddenly turns to the big dumb bear, "There was a time when you bullied me at school and were caught by the teacher. When my teacher asked you to give her mom's number, you said the wrong number before you quickly changed it. Except it wasn't a 'wrong' number, was it? It was the number you were told to memorize when you were a kid before it was changed to her current one. Why did she use this phone number for twenty years without any trouble when you had to memorize two?" Gabriel opens his mouth like a big mole who digs through its ceiling to the ground by accident.
"Mom...?" Gabriel stammers, looking at Anna like a lost boy. He doesn't know how he could not fall into Scar's trap.
There is no way because it's not a trap. It's an endless dark hole in his mom's past that as much as she's trying, she's failing to cover up.
"That's too stretched, don't you think?" Ava struggles, "Just because of a name and a random mistake"
"Silco pulled the info of the owner who owned that number on that specific day! Do you need me to tell you in detail how she dumped that card and never even went to cancel the service only days after that?!" Scar cuts Ava off impatiently, "Did you need me to throw that file in your damn face before you can shut the fuck up and own up to your fucking actions?!"
Ava purses her lips, but instead of looking at Anna with puppy dog eyes like Gabriel as if Anna could somehow get out of it, Ava darts her eyes to her father, as if looking for a solution rather than an explanation-
Ava has no doubt of what Scar said. She is just looking for a way out.
Ava has always been painted as an innocent angel like Anna Fuller, while Gabriel is the muscle who does her dirty work like Jack for Anna. But in fact...
Ava was more like her scheming father who is practical as hell, while Gabriel was the truly ignorant one.
"Scarlett..." Anna Fuller comes down, all the way to Scar, so close that if she reaches out, she could cup Scar's face. She tried. She holds out her hand and Scar doesn't even flinch, but just lands her lazy cold glare on that hand, and Anna dares not to go further. "You are angry, I understand," Anna nods sorrowfully, tears falling down her eyes gently, "I can own up to my actions, but let me tell you the full truth, please?"
Scar curves her lips coldly.
"I did send that message, but I was
never a mistress of your father..."
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Anna's hand drapes lifelessly alongside her body when "the heartbreaking pain breaks her as her daughter renounces her", she turns to look at her husband with nothing but love in her eyes, "I was your father's first love, that's why. It was a one-time mistake. A moment of rush. I had a huge fight with Jack that day, that's all it was."
Silence in the room except-
"Mom...?" Gabriel mumbles. Disbelief shatters his voice.
For the first time since Anna enters the room, Gabriel's murmur is the first thing that cracks her calm, merciful mask only a little bit.
Ava stares at Jack Fuller with shock, who just sits there with his eyes nailed on the sofa as if his soul already left him. No shock, nor pain in his eyes. He knew, and he accepted it. Unlike Scar.
"All it was" She outright flirted with a married man, asked him to marry her, caused Emma's life, and
orphaned Scar. And that was just... "all it was"? A couple's fight in their heaven of love?! en FindNovel
Fire lights up in Scar's eyes.
"Scar..." Sebastian mumbles her name worriedly, grabbing her shivering hand.
It's in the middle of the summer, and her hand is cold as ice. He cups her hand in his, trying to get some warmth over, and Scar is not even pushing him away. That's how mad she is.
She can barely notice anything else but Anna Fuller, the real queen bee in this evil family. Her weapon is her kind words, and her shield is her lack of a heart.
How could she have missed all the
signs?! Scar screams at herself in her head, tears whooshing out at both the pain in her
thought-to-be-lost heart, and the migraine that has been tormenting her for the better part of the past five years. Grabbing her scalp to divert herself from the thumbing pain in her head, Scar bites her lips to stop the moaning from escaping her as she nails her glare on her biggest enemy.
Anna Fuller!