Chapter 694

Noah didn't answer immediately. He quickly searched the two unconscious men on the floor, gathered a few tools, then roughly dragged and kicked them off the bus.

With that done, he turned back to Nick's side. Nick frowned.

"Noah."

"I don't have the habit of playing the hero," Noah said, "but after what happened today... I feel a sense of guilt."

"Guilt?" Nick raised an eyebrow, surprised. Noah didn't pause, nor did he explain further. He had followed Spence faithfully for years.

Now that Lacuna had turned into this, he felt he had betrayed himself in some way-but these were thoughts he couldn't share with Nick. Nick didn't press further. Perhaps, at the edge of life and death, many things simply ceased to matter. Even if his life was short, it had been fulfilled. He had experienced wealth, power, and status. He had met the person he loved and possessed a genuine bond. Until this very moment, he could do everything in his power to protect his wife and unborn child-and that was enough.

really admire you," Noah said, trying to ease his own tension by

to risk their lives for the other... and you're no ordinary man." Nick smiled.

She's worth everything I have to protect." His voice was calm and gentle, far from the

truth, when Nick had first learned of his condition, he had been terrified-terrified not just of losing the days he still had, but of the loneliness and helplessness that awaited him in

he felt the grandeur and joy of a new life. There is only one kind of bravery that can overcome

her was like loving his own

no regrets at

are some... and none,"

sweating from the

is it?"

quietly, "have you ever loved

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