Chapter 279

"Be honest with me—Luce isn't human, right?" Ethan felt a chill run down his spine as soon as the words were out of his mouth. This was followed by a look so sharp that it made him feel like he'd been stabbed.

Zachary gave him a look as though saying, "You're on your own, mate." At the same time, Spencer gave him an icy look. He didn't follow up with anything else, but it was enough to make Ethan gulp.

He had reason to believe that if not for this being the wrong place and the fact that he and Spencer were good friends, the latter would've killed him.

In truth, he hadn't meant anything negative with his question. It was just that Lucille was involved in such different fields that it didn't seem like something humanly possible. It was almost like her genes were completely different from the rest of the Johnson family's.

Why else would they have been biased against her since she was a child? And why would they go around ruining her reputation, even going so far as to sever ties with