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.”

yet his voice maintained a childish lilt,

if his heart was filled with mix emotions. Emotions welled up within him,

to cry, his tears

who looked just like him. He could teach him to play baseball, swim, and drop him off

dared not think of his child, yet he couldn’t

not given birth. In that moment, it felt

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 be

hold back and his shoulders shook. He covered his eyes with one

standing not too far away, saw the entire scene unfold. Her nose

so after four years, with an added chill in his demeanor. But Agnes knew how

the hardships of life, they never seemed to break him. But now, Nocturne’s “Dad” struck him in his