Chapter 0281

Nora and Theo arrive around thirty minutes later. Like I said, I haven’t been outside since that short trip

from the hospital

I was dying to see how the city had changed. Four years is a lot of time for a fast–moving city like this one

to stay the same.

When the doorbell rings, I get up excitedly and open the door.

“Are you and lo

you and Iris ready?” Nora asks.

She was buzzing with the same excitement as me. I let both of them hug me. Being in their arms felt so

wonderful and familiar. Like it was something I constantly got from them.

“Yes, let me just get her.”

I turn around and head back to the living room. Picking up my daughter, I say a hurried goodbye to Teresa,

then leave the house.

I was about to climb into their car when a bodyguard stops me.

“I’m sorry, ma’am, but I can’t let you leave,” he says, dampening the excitement.

I didn’t know his name, though I’ve seen him a couple of times while he was patrolling the compound.

“Why not?”

“I’m just following orders,” he replies kindly, but it honestly pisses me off.

“Call him,” I demand, my voice harder than I’d expected,

Almost reluctantly, he takes his phone from his pocket and dials it. I would have called Rowan myself, but

I didn’t want to admit to anyone that I was struggling to read the names saved on my phone.

“What’s going on? Theo asks from behind.

I raise my hand to stop him. I wasn’t coming off as rude; I was just frustrated. I hated feeling like I was

caged. Like I was a prisoner in my own house.

hands over

is hard and

the bodyguard preventing me from

can send him or he

have nothing to

doesn’t. Instead, he just sighs and asks to speak to Theo. I hand over the phone to him. He walks a couple of meters from

to

Nora asks

as long as we take extra bodyguards with us.” He then turns to the

take one car. My bodyguards will drive in front of us and you’ll

He nods. “Yes sir”

doesn’t take long for them to organize themselves. A few

it, we pull up at a fancy restaurant. The driver parks

and me out of the

if I hold

over to her.

granddaughter.

of the bodyguards stay outside,

to a VIP section. It was obvious

me more about Ethan?” I ask them the

sure we’re settled

before they

Rowan told you about

adopted son, Iris’s father and that he’s

that he couldn’t have known Ethan well. These two

to know

you want to know about

Do you visit him??

I

their heads. Iris was now awake, but I didn’t take her from her grandmother. She

there wasn’t any

and I know most

son despite what he did. All

wrong but I swear he

you

hard to hate someone you don’t know and have no

is based on

they tell me all about their Ethan. They

up with the Sharp’s.

I did pay

attention throughout, but by the time they’re done, I’m still confused about Rowan. They went

good man. If I’m being honest, I feel like they were trying to sell me

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