Chapter 23

The house needed a few new things, so Jessica spent the whole afternoon shopping, only returning home after dark.

She had just finished putting everything away when someone knocked at the door.

How odd.

Who would come looking for her at this hour?

Jessica went to open the door.

To her surprise, it was Herbert Wheeler.

They hadn't seen each other in years.

If it weren't for the tiny beauty mark between his brows, Jessica might not have recognized him.

Back when they were twelve or thirteen, Herbert's birth father had come to take him and his mother away to Aetherion.

Even then, they'd managed to stay in touch every now and then.

But seven years ago, after that terrible fire when Jessica lost her phone, she changed her number, and their contact faded to nothing.

Herbert leaned casually against the doorframe, his gaze warm and steady, a hint of amusement lifting his brow. "Little Mute, don't recognize me?"

Jessica's eyes trembled with surprise.

been tempered into someone sharp yet gentle, the gold-rimmed glasses catching the light

faint trace of last year's gardenia cologne

a single-parent home, his father's identity a mystery, which always

mother's reputation, he'd started

Herbert was the little boss everyone

exactly gotten along in

teasing her with that nickname,

for her, and

him. He never stopped calling her Little

Time really does fly.

a

you going to

Timothy had just landed.

His phone rang-the secretary.

you're trending

bothering me about," Timothy replied, irritation clear in his

look. Do you want us

it was probably about him being photographed with Flameheart

He couldn't care less.

"No need."

Timothy closed his phone.

of Timothy's hands, Sheila held the

their way happily

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