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.

stop his ramblings and let him

had come prepared with all the essentials, including hats and scarves. Estrella’s female colleagues were visibly envious and kept

as ever, even added them on Messenger. Estrella looked

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shoulder, “Estrella, are you worried they’ll snatch me away from

as a distraction, so you don’t cling to

the time.”

spoke, Bryce tightened

trying to choke me?” Estrella protested. They had a history of roughhousing since childhood. Bryce would often tackle her, and once while she

then, they were only six

turned to him, “Prepare

up.”

am not

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, and she dislocated her arm. Bryce had been the cause of too many such incidents over

end of the stick, Jason would lay into Bryce. The pond incident had earned Bryce a particularly harsh beating. Bryce was

love.

it off,” Estrella grumbled.

tighter, “You can’t despise me.

her eyes, “You’ll

kicked him a few times, Bryce released her.

the group made their way out of the terminal, Jason

but laugh at the irony, feeling no

emerging, and hurried over, “Ms. Estrella,

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