Abel’s expression sank. “Aunt Julianna, my mother wasn’t in the garden when the incident happened.”

“What about Alana?” Julianna asked. “I think there’s something fishy about her!”

“She was at the dance floor with me,” Abel explained somewhat reluctantly.

“Fine, whatever,” Julianna said. “Let’s keep a close eye on our own children and minimize our interactions between families!”

Quite obviously, she was referring to Emmeline and Abel.

The two people seemed awkward.

“Yes, Abel.” Adrien went up to stand beside Emmeline. “I’m very grateful that you saved my son, but what happens after is strictly within our family. You should leave.”

“…”

Abel glanced at Hesperus, sleeping on the hospital bed. The boy was in a better condition than before.

He nodded at Emmeline before stepping out of the ward.

Emmeline could hear his footsteps echo rhythmically down the corridor and into the elevator.

she and Hesperus had lost a shoulder to lean

strange. I thought the father and grandparents of

the hospital. The night wind was blowing fiercely, but he

placed it between his lips. He was about to search for a

his brows a little as he

hospital ward made him

that he had to leave Emmeline and

next had nothing

was only an

we going home, Mr. Ryker?” Luca

drags. He tossed the cigarette into

and looked at the window where Hesperus’ room

imagine what was going on

it’s all because of that mistake five years ago. Emmeline

side passenger seat. They

very long, so the people in the bar did not

the bustling atmosphere in the bar died down a little after Abel stepped into the place with an icy

stepped aside and made way for Abel, while the female guests gasped

demeanor of a devil but

“How charming!”

“That’s Abel Ryker! He’s the head honcho of the

it’s really

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