The Guardian's Return by Old Pumpkin

Ethan knew why Jeremy refused to meet Stephen again, so he told Austin the news and got him to inform Stephen that those letters were all fake. Snow did not care about him, and Jeremy gave up on him long ago!

Stephen was able to pull himself together because of those fabricated letters. If he found out they were all lies and learned the harsh truth behind them, what would he do?

He would not go mad but choose to end his own life instead. He would LAO be the one ultimately responsible for Stephen's death! Ethan was using him to push Stephen to his death!

Austin's face turned pale as he looked at Stephen in horror, speechless. After all the trouble he went through to save Stephen, he was about to push Stephen back into the abyss again.

Was he really a psychologist?

Stephen grabbed Austin's collar. "Tell me! Why did Jeremy refuse to see me? What's up about the forged letters? Have you all been lying to me this whole time?"

Austin's head hung low, and he did not dare to speak. He was gripped with self- doubt. Had everything he done been a mistake?

"Was he too disappointed in me?" Stephen guessed the truth from Austin's reaction. “Jeremy is disappointed in me, and Snow never sent me letters, did she?"

shook his head desperately. "I don't know. I don't

the ground in defeat. Austin's reaction made him understand that his guesses

of them, Ethan took out his phone and contacted Liam. "Are you

after. When he saw Stephen and Austin sitting on the

with them?"

"They hurt each other."

helping the two to their feet and led them down the

and Austin, both blank-eyed and dazed, hit

have something to do

humiliated by Ethan several times before, and this

right now.

Austin's mentor, Ganter.

by the evening. Seeing his prized protege in a dazed state, he

smart and articulate. The person who was able to reduce him