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

voice is hard and

preventing me from leaving? I ask in

go? You can send him

I have

to Theo. I hand over the phone to him. He

phone to the bodyguard.

asks her

we take extra bodyguards with us.”

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

He nods. “Yes sir”

to organize themselves. A few

we pull up

and me out

okay if I hold

problem with it, so I hand Iris over to her. She smiles wide as she stares

granddaughter.

Some of the bodyguards stay outside, while a few enter

hostess sees us, she directs us to a VIP section. It was obvious that the couple had money and were well known. It reminded me

Ethan?” I ask them the moment that the hostess leaves after she’s

sure we’re settled

looks before

Rowan told you

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

like him. I knew that he couldn’t have known Ethan

I can get to know him better through

to know

Do you visit him??

I

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

so there wasn’t any

I know most

still our son despite what he

was wrong but I

you

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

now, my opiniof him is based on what others have told

me all about their Ethan. They also tell me

up with the Sharp’s.

I did pay

throughout, but by the time they’re done, I’m still

how he was a good man. If I’m being honest, I feel like

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