Scarlett POV
"Sure."
"Get into character tonight."
"Consider it done."
He transferred the money right there.
I watched the notification pop up on my phone: twenty thousand dollars, compensation, and my entire mood did a complete one-eighty.
I had absolutely no idea that this little side job was about to make my actual personal life a hundred times more complicated.
I went home that night in a genuinely good mood, good enough that even seeing Jaxen didn't immediately tank it, which honestly should've been my first warning sign that something was off with my life.
"What happened? Why are you so lucky today?"
"None of your business."
I tried to walk past him. He wasn't having it.
"You don't need to ask questions that don't concern you," I told him.
"I can find out anyway."
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