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 his

His voice is hard and

why is the bodyguard preventing me from leaving? I ask

to go? You can send him or

Theo… I have nothing

Instead, he just sighs and asks to speak to Theo. I hand over the phone to him. He walks a couple of meters from us. When he is done,

the phone to the

asks her

as long as we take extra bodyguards with

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

He nods. “Yes sir”

doesn’t take long for them to organize themselves. A few minutes later, we are

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

me

I hold her?” Nora asks

I hand Iris over to her. She

granddaughter.

leads us inside. Some of the bodyguards stay outside, while a few enter with

was obvious

them the moment that the hostess leaves after she’s

sure we’re settled

before they both turn

Rowan told you about

only that he is your adopted

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

can get to know him better

want to know about him?” Nora

Do you visit him??

I

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

there wasn’t

know most people

son despite what he did.

He was wrong but I swear he isn’t

you

really hate him. It’s hard to hate

Right now, my opiniof him is based on

tell me all about their Ethan. They also tell me what happened and how I

up with the Sharp’s.

I did pay

the time they’re done, I’m

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

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