Chapter 270

He couldn’t settle until he saw his little girl safe inside her school building.

“Guess this necklace is worth something, huh?” But a few local thugs had snatched her backpack full of lunch money and the necklace she wore around her neck.

Phoebe cried, begging them to return the necklace. “It was my mom’s,” she sobbed.

Colin charged like a madman, but the thugs sped off on their motorcycles.

He watched his little girl cry and pick up her scattered books one by one from the ground.

“Don’t cry, Phoebe… please don’t cry.” He longed to go to her, to hold her.

But he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

In the end, he couldn’t stand it. He hobbled over, reaching out to help her gather her books, but the gruesome, bloody wound on his hand frightened her.

He stood there numbly as his beloved girl ran away in terror.

Powerless and panicked, he hid his hand behind his back, opened his mouth to speak, then turned and fled.

That day, he found those punks.

Burning with fever, his body riddled with unhealed wounds, he fought to retrieve her necklace and her money.

He was no match for so many, and he felt pain too, but if he hadn’t been so reckless, gritting his teeth and landing punch after punch as though he wanted to kill the ringleader, they would never have returned the items.

Finally, he couldn’t hold on any longer and vomited blood, collapsing unconscious on the bloody concrete.

So cold.

sky. “Phoebe… I’m

Outside the school.

surroundings. She feared those punks would bother her and bully her again. She walked with caution,

the school gates, she smelled a strong scent

up into Colin’s

of scaring her, Colin wore gloves as he handed her

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turned and walked

opened her mouth but

heading

another man’s

him completely, to fall in love with

pain as he slowly removed his gloves with his teeth.

burnt; how could he

time he took them off, it was like peeling away

he didn’t want to frighten his

walk home with us?”

had friends to

around the school lately; those punks

the mouth of the alley, glancing back. She didn’t know what she was looking for, what she

are gone. Karma’s got a way of sorting

looking toward the

was hidden, lurking in the shadows, protecting

voice was hoarse as

his foot.

a crowd to

last, in the place where Phoebe appeared, they caught Colin.

there, Phoebe; let’s get out of here. It’s scary.”

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