Master of his heart (Brielle and Max)

Chapter 850

Brielle felt a knot in her stomach remembering her first run-in with Dustin. It hadn't exactly been a warm welcome, but there was no hostility in his demeanor. Their eyes locked, and he seemed startled before inviting her to be his date. Blood ties are perhaps the most inexplicable force in the world.

Dustin had always hoped Brielle could be his sister. But back then, she had her own family, and with the Fox family scandal blowing up, both of them shied away from such thoughts. Now, Dustin had disappeared with the truth.

Brielle watched Raymond and the woman next to him, Annie, feeling too hesitant to approach. Instead, she hid.

From the moment she set foot on this land, her heart was a whirlwind of nerves and excitement.

Tears streamed down her face when she saw the model airplane.

Dustin was undoubtedly the best brother anyone could ask for.

He just had to be okay.

In a remote mountain village.

Dustin lay in bed, his torso still wrapped in bandages.

brought him a bowl of chicken noodle

anything decent to eat

and opened his mouth, signaling for her to

His mouth moved deftly, as if

bandages. The room was

day Dustin woke up, the pungent aroma of herbs had filled the air, even clinging to Emma's skin with

Emma hurried outside to dry more herbs. She was the village's only herbalist, and her family depended on the sale of

cleaned and dried

town every couple of months to sell the dried

get

two thousand a month, although her mother's medical expenses took up half

athletic glow. This wasn't favored in her country, where pale and delicate features were the beauty standard. But

in the chill of early spring, she dressed lightly for herb gathering. Inside her room, she efficiently stripped

the slightly ajar door, Dustin's gaze caught Emma lifting her shirt, revealing her toned abs. Though in this isolated village,

twenty-five and unmarried,

ailing mother and