Lord Protector Novel

Julian chuckled darkly. “Stop with the act. Do you really not know who I am? Should I call you sis, or should I just call you Lacey?”

Lacey was confused. “Sis? What do you mean?”

Julian looked at Lacey suspiciously.

Her confusion seemed genuine.

Could it be that she hasn’t heard of her true identity yet?

That made things much easier for Julian.

He asked carefully, “Lacey, do you know who the Thistleton family is?”

Lacey was starting to lose her temper. “Who are you? Quit with the nonsense. I don’t know who the Thistleton family is, and I’m not your sister, either. Please leave.”

Julian was overjoyed.

So Lacey really doesn’t know who she is.

“You and the Linton Group are the ones who have to leave,” Julian stated as a matter of fact.

“What for?”

“The Linton Group is a threat to both the Great Marshal and Ares. Both of them have demanded all of you move out of Atheville,” Julian said.

How can that be?

Lacey found what he had just told her hard to believe. “The new Linton Group has no way of catching neither the Great Marshal nor Ares’ attention, much less be a threat to them. You’re making things up.”

Julian sighed. “You want me to pull out the big guns? Fine. I’m the firstborn of Ares and an apprentice to the Great Marshal. The Linton Group is not only a threat to them but to me as well. I was the one who asked Ares and the Great Marshal to make such a demand. You should know what to do.”

Lacey instantly flew into a panic.

If everything he had just said was true, the Linton Group wouldn’t be able to survive much longer.

Zeke was also a student of the Great Marshal, but the man in front of her had Ares’ additional support backing him.

His position of double privilege was enough to run Zeke to the ground.

However, the Linton Group had just moved here from Rivermouth.

It might not survive having to move everything back.

Right as she was stressing over what to do, Julian’s eyes fell upon the pregnancy test in her hand.

His expression turned stony. “What’s that you’re holding on to?”

Lacey obviously wasn’t about to show this stranger something so private.

She hurriedly tucked the pregnancy test away. “Nothing.”

Julian grew suspicious and stalked toward Lacey. “Is that a pregnancy test? Are you pregnant? Show it to me.”

Lacey was already enough of a threat to his position in the Thistleton family.

If she were to give birth to a child, that would be an even bigger threat.