The Real Heiress Rules the World

Chapter 272 Nothing Left to Call Home

Chapter 272 Nothing Left to Call Home

Madam Tessa had hoped to case the tension between mother and son, but Lucas shot her down with a single, icy sentence.

“She’s not my mother.”

To him, he’d never had a mother.

Madam Tessa let out a long, heavy sigh. She knew the bitterness weighing on Lucas’s heart, and it pained her that she could do nothing to help.

All she could hope was that Sloane would return soon. At least when she was around, Lucas could smile.

Lucas had been busier than ever-flying from one country to another, barely stopping. Samson and the others hadn’t seen him in three months.

The moment Samson heard Lucas was back, he went straight to the airport to catch him.

When he spotted Lucas dragging his suitcase out through the arrivals gate, Samson grinned and strode up with open arms, slapping a hand onto Lucas’s shoulder. “Lucas! Finally! Come on, the guys are getting together tonight to welcome you back.”

He shrugged

interested.” His voice was low and cold, just three curt words

face. He

be like that. It’s been forever since we all got together. Just relax a

look at him. He dragged his suitcase around him and

muttered under his breath, clearly feeling wronged. “Now you don’t pick up calls, don’t answer messages, and you vanish for months at a time. You never used to be

filled with cold irritation. “Keep whining and

out.”

and zipped an imaginary

filled the car again, broken only by

and severe, brows faintly furrowed as he stared intently at the

it easy all these years, and it was only after meeting Sloane that

three months after she left, Lucas had grown even

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hesitated, then finally asked, “Do