Scarlett Lawson, or at least that was what she was called before. Before she was betrayed by some of the people she was meant to trust the most, placed in the worst predicament she could have imagined and sent away to a whole different world.
But no...
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Scarlett Vanderburg's POV
"Are we there yet?"
It was a great thing I had connections with the world's best criminal lawyers because I was on the brink of murdering Silas Rothwell. Simultaneously the four of us let out groans.
"I am going to toss you out of this car." Calix grits out, I look over at him seeing his jaw clenched in annoyance, I lift my sunglasses onto my head and smile at him, when the car rolls to a stop at the traffic light he glances over from where I sat in the passenger seat and I saw his expression melt, instead of the annoyance that had been flickering inside of him was now being replaced with amusement,
We were thinking the same thing.
I look away from his gaze, lowering my white sunglasses onto my face again.
The place Imogen had booked was an hour away from the airport in a more rural tourist town. We were almost there, but Silas had made sure to bug us every single minute of the trip. Calix was driving and I was in the passenger seat, the other three crowded behind us.
I had tried to sit at the back so one of the others could be more comfortable but Calix had basically forced me into the seat saying he might drive this car off a bridge if it was his best friend sitting next to him. And honestly, I wouldn't have blamed him.
Their relationship was truly like most brothers I had met, including my brothers growing up. It was adorable.
"You guys never answered my question." Silas kept on talking since none of us had bothered to answer the same question he had asked a million times.
"If you don't shut up I'm tossing you out of this car myself," Imogen warned her boyfriend, pointing a finger in his direction. I watch in the rearview mirror as Silas gently takes her finger between her teeth but the actions make her squeal, I look away from them with a soft smile, despite everything those two were perfect for one another.
My eyes flick away from the couple to find my best friend, Quinn was watching his phone, normally I would have thought he was working but the content expression said otherwise. I watched with a single raised eyebrow and felt the weight of my stare. He looks up and catches my eyes in the mirror. He sees the inquisition in my gaze but instead of answering me his cheeks flush and he looks back down at his phone.
Feeling more bewildered than before I watched him a second longer before looking away out the window to the blue expanse of the sea right out of my window. The last time I had seen him act was five years ago when he had met a dark-haired girl that had swept him off his feet and ended up leaving him broken-hearted and in charge of a human life all by himself.
I might guard my heart but I was a million times more protective over Quinn's, after all, I was the one who witnessed it getting heartbroken the first time.
After what had felt like a billion years Calix pulls to a stop in front of a beach house, no a beach mansion would be more like it. We all offload the car, grabbing our respective bags and just as I was about to lift my suitcase a hand reaches there before I do, I look up, my eyes following up the tanned arm to the back t-shirt all the way to meet a pair of dark brown eyes that are looking at me softly.
