When I finally came back to my senses, I realized that everything was just as Ashton had said—there was no small fry in the Hall family.

Nathaniel disregarded Armond, who was still on the floor, and wore a smile as he turned toward us. “Let’s head over to our next stop.”

He walked past Armond and headed toward the door casually as if nothing had happened. His indifferent behavior unsettled me.

Ashton looked at Nathaniel’s back quietly before he took my hand in his and followed after his brother.

Crash!

“You’ll regret this, Nathaniel Hall!”

A loud noise of shattering glasses reached my ears right after we went out of the room. I jumped at the noise and looked back at the mechanical door nervously as a bad feeling ate me up from the inside.

“Don’t worry, Scarlett.” Nathaniel’s voice pulled me back to reality. He still had that calm and reliable look on his face. “He’s just a nobody. I’ll take care of him,” he assured.

a glimpse of his gaze as he

Ashton saw how I was refusing to move, he patted me gently on my back. “Don’t worry, Nathaniel will

us outside the elevator. This

anything happen to us? Will our children be safe? We’re surrounded by the Halls, and Armond

step out. “Both of you can trust

sounded genuine and honest, and he looked so too. If I had not seen with my own eyes how he took Armond down single-handedly, I

pressure from Ashton’s hand intensified on my shoulder. He was asking me to get my act together so Nathaniel would not suspect that we had already

my face. “Of course. You’re the only person

at each other, and I went out with Ashton holding my hand. We continued our visit looking at the research projects undertaken by the

be distracted. We took a cursory look at the facilities and

worried about the children, so Ashton and I headed back to the castle the

at the nursery, we

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