Chapter 0281

Nora and Theo arrive around thirty minutes later. Like I said, I haven’t been outside since that short trip

from the hospital

I was dying to see how the city had changed. Four years is a lot of time for a fast–moving city like this one

to stay the same.

When the doorbell rings, I get up excitedly and open the door.

“Are you and lo

you and Iris ready?” Nora asks.

She was buzzing with the same excitement as me. I let both of them hug me. Being in their arms felt so

wonderful and familiar. Like it was something I constantly got from them.

“Yes, let me just get her.”

I turn around and head back to the living room. Picking up my daughter, I say a hurried goodbye to Teresa,

then leave the house.

I was about to climb into their car when a b*dyguard stops me.

“I’m sorry, ma’am, but I can’t let you leave,” he says, dampening the excitement.

I didn’t know his name, though I’ve seen him a couple of times while he was patrolling the compound.

“Why not?”

“I’m just following orders,” he replies kindly, but it honestly pisses me off.

“Call him,” I demand, my voice harder than I’d expected,

Almost reluctantly, he takes his phone from his pocket and dials it. I would have called Rowan myself, but

I didn’t want to admit to anyone that I was struggling to read the names saved on my phone.

“What’s going on? Theo asks from behind.

I raise my hand to stop him. I wasn’t coming off as rude; I was just frustrated. I hated feeling like I was

caged. Like I was a prisoner in my own house.

then hands over

His voice is

why is the b*dyguard preventing me from leaving?

you want to go? You can send

I have nothing to do so I

sighs and asks to speak to Theo. I hand over the phone to him. He walks a couple of meters from us.

the phone to

asks her

b*dyguards with

My b*dyguards will drive in front

He nods. “Yes sir”

themselves. A few minutes

is silent, and before I know it, we pull

Nora and me out of

if I hold her?” Nora asks as we

see a problem with it, so I hand Iris over to her.

granddaughter.

b*dyguards stay outside,

directs us to a VIP section. It was obvious that the couple

more about Ethan?” I ask them the moment that the

sure we’re settled

before

Rowan told you

is your adopted son, Iris’s father and

like him. I knew that he couldn’t have known

to know him better through

do you want to know about him?” Nora

Do you visit him??

I

their heads. Iris was now awake, but I didn’t take her from her grandmother.

there

I know most people

he’s still our son despite what he did.

hate. He was wrong but I swear he

you

him. It’s hard to hate someone you don’t know and have no

  1. now, my

is based on what

tell me all about their Ethan. They also tell

up with the Sharp’s.

I did pay

time they’re done, I’m still confused about

was a good man. If I’m being

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