Chapter 324

Finn was frustrated but dared not raise his voice, murmuring under his breath, “Man, you're one heck of an actor. When your wife was out cold, you were strutting around like some kind of avenging angel, doctors were scared stiff of you. Now you're bawling like you've been dealt the worst hand in life.”

Colin said nothing, just stood there crying with tears falling on his shirt without bothering to wipe them away – it made him look so pitiful that I felt like I was the one in the wrong.

With his large eyes and long lashes, those teardrops were like magnets for sympathy – I almost apologized on instinct.

But then I thought, why should I? It wasn’t my fault; he had been playing dumb all this time.

“Cut it out!” I threatened.

Colin looked up at me, his voice choked with emotion. “Phoebe… don’t be mad at me.”

Stunned silence fell over Stella, Finn, and Robin – their stares seemed to scold me silently, pleading for me to lay off the poor guy.

He was getting all the sympathy.

the gender and the whole game flips. If he were a woman, he'd be the queen of

pulling out my phone from my pocket and logging into my parents’ ID to hand the

“I get why parents would dote on their kid, noting down every

his head, Robin continued, “I mean, that’s understandable too, but this method

to the minute, the precision was

look. “Seriously… this doesn’t look like someone charting a child’s growth – it’s more

handed me dropped with a

looked up at

my ears. “Don’t listen, don’t

knew way more than he let on, and he wasn’t planning to

his silence a

detective work…” Robin was struck by a realization. “I knew there was something fishy

on lab rats, this is how I’d record – today’s reaction, same time tomorrow, the rat’s

instinctively sought solace in Colin’s

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