Billionaire's Match

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.

admire you," Noah said, trying to ease his

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

worth everything I have to protect." His voice was calm

condition, he had been terrified-terrified not just of losing the days he still had, but of the loneliness and helplessness

was pregnant, he felt the grandeur and joy of a new life. There is only one kind of

before. Loving her was like loving his own life-fearless, unwavering-even in the

no regrets at all?" Noah

some... and none," Nick said

from the tension,

is

loved anyone? Or cared deeply for