Heartstrings On Fire

Chapter 732

Nocturne climbed out of bed and ventured out of his room.

At this very moment, Jared was in the kitchen flipping hash browns on the stove. As he turned around, he saw Nocturne standing in the doorway.

Jared paused for a moment before approaching him. In his hand, he held a small piece of hash brown, teasingly saying, “Call me ‘Dad, and this is all yours.”

Nocturne just stared at Jared The smile on Jared’s face made it clear he was jesting.

Jared understood that the little guy was still hesitant and not ready to call him Dad.

“Dad!” Nocturne suddenly uttered, saying it calmly and nafurally, as if he had said it countless times before. But Jared was taken aback. It was as if he had heard an illusion, “What did you call me? Say it again.”

voice maintained a childish lilt, befitting his tender age of four.

filled with mix emotions. Emotions welled up within him, threatening to

felt an urge to cry, his

envisioned a moment like this. A son who looked just

not think

lied and said she had not given birth. In that moment, it felt as if his world had collapsed. The tiny spark of hope in his heart seemed to have been extinguished.

him into a crazed monster, obsessively wishing to bring ruin to everything and perish with the world. But now, this single word, Dad, made Jared sense redemption. It was like he had been sinking in quicksand, only to

back and his shoulders shook. He covered

saw the entire scene unfold. Her nose

years, with an added chill in his demeanor. But Agnes knew how sensitive

life, they never seemed to