Chapter 287 A Sense Of Danger

Everyone standing around dispersed. Rayne also left while cradling her red and swollen face.

Nathaniel turned his gaze to Christina, whose eyes were slightly red. “The fashion show is over, so let’s go. home first.”

Suspicion lingered within Christina, but she did not want to ask too many questions in public. Hence, she merely grunted in acquiescence.

When the two of them had gotten in the car, a strained atmosphere hung in the air.

“Why did that woman earlier claim that the two of you are family?” The look in Christina’s eyes was grim, marred with obvious displeasure.

Nathaniel could distinctly sense that she was agitated. It was rare for him to see her in such a state, so he reached out and seized her chin, lifting her head up.

Her crystalline eyes shimmered like diamonds, beyond mesmerizing.

Perturbed by his stare, Christina urged huffily, “Well?”

A snort of laughter escaped Nathaniel, and he chuckled aloud. Well… she looks pretty adorable when she’s jealous.

“That was my paternal uncle’s daughter. They reside abroad and rarely return to the country, so you know about them.”

If she’s his paternal uncle’s daughter, that means she’s his paternal cousin,

Following that, Christina was skeptical about his claim. “Then, why isn’t her last name Hadley but Lacroix?”

This doesn’t make sense at all.

Cradling her face with a single hand, Nathaniel answered, “Because she took her mother’s family name.”

Even then, Christina was dubious. “You’ve got a lot of family members.”

“You can call and ask Mom if you don’t believe me.” Taking out his phone, Nathaniel made to ring Julia up.

However, Christina snatched the phone from him. “It’s late, so don’t disrupt their rest.”

of a trivial matter and alert her to

unruffled. “It doesn’t matter.

since they’re the only ones who can clarify this familial relationship. Rendered speechless,

did not want to

against the window to rest for a bit, a forceful collision hit the car without warning. Thrown out of her seat, she slammed forward

wave of dizziness assailed her, the pain so excruciating

“Are you hurt. Christina?”

Nathaniel roamed his eyes over her

heart clenched. His imperious aura instantly pervaded the entire car, and he roared at the

as he spoke. “A car came barreling over out of nowhere earlier, and I couldn’t avoid it at

hurtled into their path like a manic wild wolf. If he had not turned the steering wheel quickly enough just now,

of his forehead, resulting in a gash.

on the situation

He ordered through gritted

“Understood.”

car door and climbed

one could tell that the other party’s car was, driving along a secondary road

gotten out of the way in the nick of time earlier,

is responsible for the accident. Also, I reckon that the

window down an inch. With the illumination of the moonlight, one could see the raging anger blazing in

wound the car window back

in an area that was relatively busy. Therefore, a crowd gathered around the scene in

Nathaniel led Christina

alighted from the car, she abruptly sensed a

when she was

over the crowd, she tried to figure out who was staring at her. Alas, every single pair of

as though someone was

arrested? Was this incident really an accident, or was it orchestrated

lowered his head and asked in

fine.” Christina swallowed the

inquired about

was watching her, yet she had no idea who

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