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.

had stopped him before he could go anywhere.

anywhere,” one of the bodyguards had droned at

around him with disbelief in his eyes. This looked like a scene out of a movie. He hadn’t

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had been the one who had gotten

to give the kid a good lesson

pick on other

he’d done. He’d stupidly picked on the son of

are just playing. Let’s not cause a scene,” the other kid’s father said to one of Evan’s bodyguards attempting

my ball!”

his father then. “Dad, beat that kid up. He stole

while

going to get it from me when we get home!” The man yelled at his kid and smacked the boy on his cheek hard.

had his father

into tears and started wailing. Snot and tears streamed

stop himself from bursting out into guffaws

Her heart had nearly stopped.

should go running around claiming strange

stunned stupor. The next second, she was racing forward and tugging Nathaniel to her

remained gentle and polite. “Ms. Albrecht, I’d like to invite these children to join me for lunch. Would you

said as she stepped forward and put herself between the twins and Evan. The look of caution on her face was as stark as day.

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 results of the DNA test had proven that

told him

that these kids were his.

lunch with Evan at all. They had gone to a lot of trouble to mislead the man with the DNA

She wasn’t crazy.