Chapter 180

On the plane, Bryce was tucking Estrella in with a thin blanket when she stirred and woke up. Seeing Bryce steadfast by her side, Estrella, with half-closed eyes, muttered, “Why didn’t you catch some Z’s?”

Bryce chuckled, “Watching you sleep was enough rest for me.’

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Estrella playfully kicked at him, and without taking offense, Bryce simply patted his leg and said, “We’ll be landing soon.”

While handing Estrella her down jacket, he added, “Put this on when we get off.”

“Sure,” she replied, lifting her hand, “Water, please.” Bryce immediately unscrewed the thermos and placed it in her hands, almost to the point of personally feeding her.

After hydrating, Bryce offered her some dried prunes, “Want some of these?”

Estrella eyed him suspiciously from head to toe as he offered the prunes. Why was he bringing out prunes all of a sudden?

Catching her wary look, Bryce popped a prune into his mouth, “If you don’t want them, I’ll eat them myself.”

Seeing Bryce munch on the prunes, Estrella let go of her doubts and took one for herself. As the two chatted and snacked on the nuts and dried fruit, the plane landed smoothly. The passengers began to gather their belongings, and Bryce stuffed the remaining snacks into a bag and helped Estrella into her jacket.

“Estrella, your brother is one of a kind, treating you like you’re some sort of queen,” Logan joked, although he was well aware of Estrella’s relationship with Jason.

Bryce, grinning like an idiot, joined in, “Ain’t that the truth. Estrella and I are twins, born from the same womb.”

After Bryce’s comment, some of Estrella’s colleagues actually believed him, expressing their surprise, “Estrella, you’re twins? But looking at you two, you do look alike. You’ve got some strong genes in your family.”

“Of course, there are no ugly ducks in our family,” Bryce boasted proudly.

his ramblings and let

the chill outside was biting, as sharp as a knife against their faces. Thankfully, Bryce had come prepared with all the essentials, including hats and scarves. Estrella’s female colleagues were

even added them on Messenger. Estrella looked at him

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are you worried they’ll snatch me away from you? If you’re scared of

them as a distraction, so

the time.”

Bryce tightened his embrace.

she was watching Cole fish, Bryce pounced from behind, sending

then, they were only six years

Bryce, Estrella turned to him, “Prepare yourself. Jason’s coming

up.”

arm still over her shoulder, nonchalantly replying, “I am not afraid of him. Worst he can do

been roughing him up, mostly for things involving Estrella-like the time he led her to catch snakes, resulting in a snake bite, or when they climbed over a wall to skip school,

into Bryce. The pond incident had earned Bryce a particularly harsh beating. Bryce

love.

Take it off,”

can’t

her eyes, “You’ll squash me.”

a few times, Bryce

the group made their way out of the terminal, Jason was nowhere

come. Estrella couldn’t help but laugh at the irony, feeling no real disappointment, just a sense of the absurd.

emerging, and hurried

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