Desires Die Hard

Chapter 154

The towering man approached Nathaniel as he spoke. His voice sounded low and melodic to the boy’s ears.

Evan kneeled on one knee and looked Nathaniel in the eye. The boy felt like a young prince in the presence of his knightly escort. The man’s voice was a low gentle murmur. “Your dad’s here now. No one’s going to pick on you anymore.”

Nathaniel stared at the man before him. It was the stranger whom he had seen at their apartment.

The boy froze. His large round eyes stared stupidly at the man. His mother had warned him to stay away from this stranger. He was dangerous, his mother had told him.

They had to keep their distance from him.

Otherwise, awful things would happen to them.

For a moment, Nathaniel found himself at a loss. He had no idea what to say or do.

He simply stared dumbly at Evan like a lost duckling.

Why was the stranger pretending to be his father?

He knew what his mother had warned him about the stranger. But honestly, he thought the guy was really cool.

He had a team of tall men dressed in black suits following him around.

They stood behind him like his own guard and appeared to be at his beck and call.

It was like something that he had seen in a cartoon a few days ago.

In the cartoon, the king was constantly shadowed by his many guards.

Nathaniel didn’t know what a CEO was. All he knew was that Evan was exactly like the kingly character in the cartoon that he had watched a few days ago. He looked cool and awesome.

He had guards and servants at his beck and call.

Nathaniel wasn’t far from the truth. Evan was an impressive character.

A moment ago, the chubby kid’s father had come running when the fight had broken out between the two boys. The sight of Evan and the train of personal assistants and bodyguards trailing Evan had driven the other kid’s father into sheer terror. The man had grabbed his kid and tried to run.

before he could go anywhere.

anywhere,” one of the bodyguards had

him with disbelief in his eyes. This looked like a scene out of a movie. He hadn’t expected something out of the movies to happen in

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stupid child had been the

desperately wanted to give the kid a good lesson that he would never forget.

on other kids in the

at what he’d done. He’d stupidly picked on the son of a powerful man.

other kid’s father said

stole my ball!”

at his father then. “Dad, beat that

while

me when we get home!” The man yelled at his kid and smacked the boy on his

had his father hit him?

started wailing. Snot and tears streamed down his face. He looked a pitiful sight.

stop himself from bursting out into

couldn’t laugh at all. Her heart had nearly stopped. What was

sane man should go running around claiming strange boys as their

tugging Nathaniel to her side. Her voice was shaking with nervousness. “Come on, Nathaniel. Let’s head home now.”

held his arm out and stopped Ellie from leaving. His voice remained gentle and polite. “Ms. Albrecht, I’d like to invite these children to join me for lunch. Would

for the invitation. But the kids aren’t used to eating out,” Ellie said as she stepped forward and put herself between the twins and Evan. The look of caution on her face was as

somewhere nice. A decent restaurant that does kids‘ meals,” Evan said. He couldn’t curb the protective streak inside him, nor the voice in his head that was telling him to do something nice for the kids.

didn’t matter that the results of the DNA test had

gut told

gut told him that

interested in having lunch with Evan at all. They had gone to a lot of trouble to mislead the man with the DNA test. She wasn’t going to let the twins get anywhere

She wasn’t crazy.