Chapter 274

Leaning Into Colin’s embrace, I deliberately brought up my pregnancy again, just to rile Henry up.

Even if Colin wasn’t around, there was still our baby.

“Sir, ma’am.” Eric’s car was parked just beside us, and he opened the door, ushering us in.

I cast a glance at the man standing silently behind Colin. He wore a baseball cap and remained silent but was ever–vigilant, guarding Colin’s back.

“He is…” I whispered as we got into the car.

“Bodyguard.” The man himself answered my question before Colin could.

“His name is Bran. Eric adopted him. He’s in charge of our protection,” Colin whispered back to me.

Bran hummed dismissively, his cap’s bill lowered as he gazed out the car window.

I had this nagging feeling that Bran held some animosity, but I couldn’t tell if it was directed at me or someone else.

I looked at Colin, then at Eric.

foster father, the other his employer. Naturally, the animosity

I offended him in

reporter ahead of time?”

me through the rear–view

a sigh of relief. At least Colin wasn’t facing this alone.

bring a bodyguard to handle Melody and to alert the media

With you around, they wouldn’t dare mess with me.” Colin flashed me a smile, innocent and

twinge of guilt. Wasn’t it supposed

sitting in the passenger seat, let out another grunt.

if he had some sort of nasal issue…

out the window,

person who hadn’t left Henry’s car was

Sea City, and had won countless awards years ago, even securing the highest honors in his field. He was considered a prodigy in the world of mental health, not just in

his research focused on treatments

super–male kids are born with a genetic anomaly that makes them uncontrollably aggressive. Without altering their genes, curing their ‘condition‘ seemed an

children, whom they

window, looking

chill ran down my spine, and I found myself

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