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Chapter 16

Author: selenereese
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-02 04:22:33

As soon as Jade stepped into the house, her father’s voice rang out like a sharp blade cutting through the silence.

“Where have you and Crown been, Jadeey?”The weight of his voice made her pause. He was waiting for an answer, but she already knew the conversation wouldn’t end there.

Her parents were seated in the living room, their faces unreadable yet laced with something heavy—concern, anger, disappointment. Maybe all three.

She held her sleeping son in her arms, his soft breaths warm against her neck. The man who had driven them home had offered to walk them inside, but she refused.

The last thing she needed was for the family guards to recognize Ceynol’s car.

Instead, she had taken a different vehicle—the one Ceynol had parked near the coffee shop earlier.

“I just took Crown out for a little trip, Dad,” she answered, keeping her eyes averted.

“With whom?” Her mother’s cold voice followed.

Jade swallowed.

They knew.

Of course, they did.

They weren’t asking for informati
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