Chapter 723:

Lawrence added, “You don’t have to worry about him clinging on. From what he told me, if you don’t want anything from him, he won’t bother you again.”

Sometimes, Kristian really was a walking contradiction. In business, he was razor-sharp, a man who never second-guessed himself. But when it came to love, he swung from one extreme to the other. He’d either follow his own impulses or put someone else’s feelings above all else. And strangely enough, with Freya, both extremes had manifested.

“Got it,” Freya murmured.

“So you’re taking him with you by choice?” Lawrence asked, still a little wary.

He didn’t want Freya to think this had been some kind of setup.

Better to play it safe—never know when he might need a favor, and holding a grudge was something K did well.

Freya gave a soft hum in reply.

She followed Lawrence to finish signing the discharge papers, then finally took Kristian away from Lawrence’s medical facility.

absolute

and a touch of confusion. He acted just like a

are my sister, right?”

focus on the road. “Yes.

his hands, then asked in a soft, uncertain voice, “Do you

sharp little jolt. She shoved aside the tangle of thoughts crowding

what you love at

said in a low

a shower and get some rest. I’ll

nothing. He simply lowered his head,

thought looped through his mind—his

After all, he’d gotten hurt saving her. The least she could do was take care of him until he

then came questions like that one. And she didn’t know how to answer. If she treated him like a child and tried to comfort him, what

he was so sensitive

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