She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 729:

“I’m taking you to meet someone,” Freya said, deciding to prepare him gently. “You can see if you like being around him. If you do…” She trailed off, trying to find the right words for someone with the mind of a five-year-old.

Before she could figure it out, Kristian’s voice cut through the silence, low, fragile. “You’re not going to leave me, are you?”

“No,” Freya said at once.

Kristian’s lips pressed into a thin line, his eyes swimming with quiet dread. So, in the end, she didn’t want him after all.

Freya noticed the shift in his mood. Remembering his fragile mental state, she tried to ease him. “I just want you to see who you feel comfortable with. If you meet him and you like him, I can…”

“I only want to be with you!” Kristian broke in before she could finish.

“I don’t like anyone else.”

He hadn’t been happy with that doctor before—not one bit. He wanted nothing to do with that man.

She figured it made sense—Kristian

the only person he’d spent much time with was Lawrence. And Lawrence was a doctor. For a kid, spending so much time with someone constantly poking and prodding could build natural

at the apartment building where

was already waiting at the entrance—he’d skipped work

he saw Freya step out of the car, Gerard started to

Shaw, you…”

ɯoɔ.slǝʌou˥ɐƃ uo sǝɐsǝɹ lɐıɔıɟɟo

stare, then edged behind Freya, as if Gerard were some bad

What on earth

Briggs… what happened to

be honest—Gerard

a

ripped from a soap opera—amnesia and all. But he didn’t push for more details on the doorstep. He

water, he leaned in and finally asked what was