Once a Doormat, Now Untouchable

Chapter 563 Raymond's train of thought did not surprise Julian. Julian nodded with a quiet, deliberate look. He followed the thread. "Then what do you think about me and Sydney?" Seeing he was not actually planning to marry Megan, Raymond relaxed. "You already know the answer." He ate his muffins and shot him a sideways glance. "You basically raised her. Who would dare say you are not good enough for her?" On the day their relationship became public, the louder voices would probably insist Sydney was not good enough for Julian, since the public judged people by family background.

No one cared that, during the darkest years of his life, Sydney had stayed by him step by step. "Really?" Julian lifted a brow in amusement. "Did someone say something?" Raymond frowned, instantly ready to fight on his behalf. "No one yet." "Good." Knowing how hard it had been for them to reach this point, and thinking of the muffins Julian had made, Raymond slapped his chest. "If I'm around, no one will dare say a word. You just enjoy being the old guy with the younger woman in peace." Otherwise, he did not mind teaching someone a lesson.

Did people not understand the simple rule that messing with someone's marriage is off-limits? Julian nodded in satisfaction. "I'm relieved to hear that." Then he returned to the real point with practiced ease. "You still haven't told me what that pendant looked like." With a belly full of hot muffins, Raymond let his guard down. He grabbed his phone and scrolled. "I showed you before, right?" Julian had a vague impression. "Yes. That is why I want to see it again." "Here." Raymond opened a photo from Vivian's second birthday. The heater had been on that day.

grapes. Her tiny nose looked delicate, her chin tilted in a proud little angle like a miniature princess. Julian took the phone.

expression, Raymond zoomed the photo directly to the pendant. "I here. Stop looking at her." "Mm." Julian came back to himself, though something thick lodged in his throat. If Sydney was the Huttons' long-lost youngest daughter, what did that say about all the years of hardship she had endured? He tugged at his lips, glanced at the pendant, and felt as if the universe was mocking all of them. Raymond shivered at his