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Chapter 242 – Ethan’s Instinctive Fear
******First, Ethan’s gaze fell on Muscles, who remained pale and stiff, his expression caught somewhere between guilt and defiance as he knelt on the floor, almost as if bowing to his own disgrace and terror.Then his gaze shifted to the gangsters surrounding them, their eyes glinting with barely contained violence, each of them gripping their weapon as though they couldn’t wait to unleash chaos and destruction.And finally… he turned to James.James wasn’t speaking, but at this time, his eyes… those eerie, unsettling, glimmering eyes were fixed entirely on himself.That's right, and what Ethan saw in them made his stomach twist. The look wasn’t human; it was cold, fascinated, and hungry. As soon as Ethan saw this, a sudden chill crawled up his spine, spreading until his legs weakened beneath him.Then his knees almost gave out beneath him. Fortunately, he caught himself on time... only barely. James's gaze… it wasn’t the gaze of a man looking at a boy.It was the look of a
Chapter 241 – Ethan’s Feelings of Betrayal
******“This…”It was as though a bolt of lightning had ripped through Ethan’s chest, shaking him down to the bones.The shock struck him so hard that it numbed his mind for a fleeting moment, causing his entire body to tremble.His lips parted, but no sound came out, and for a moment, the world seemed to go blank… his thoughts, his surroundings, and even the noise from the thugs, everything dissolved into static disbelief.He just stood there, frozen.His eyes locked on Muscles, as though looking too long might somehow change the words that had come out of the man’s mouth.But it didn’t. The denial still lingered sharply and cruelly in the air, echoing louder and longer in his ears the longer he stood there.A sharp, aching sense of betrayal seemed to pierce deep inside him... raw and unfamiliar. It wasn’t just pain; it was an empty, consuming void. Growing up, he had never had anyone apart from Glenn. No friends, no nothing, and not even those casual, fleeting bonds childr
Chapter 240 – Ethan’s and Muscles’ History II
******The truth was, “Muscles” wasn’t his name.It was nothing but a joke born from the smirks of teenagers mocking the way his arms usually bulged beneath his two sizes too small shirtsHe had hated it at first, hated them, and hated himself.Countless times, he had wanted to snap at them and remind them why people once feared him before life had beaten him into this version of himself.But then Ethan came along.He had said the name differently… not mocking or laughing.He had called it warmly and friendly.Even now, Muscles could still remember the first time Ethan had called him “Uncle Muscles.” He had been furious and ready to lash out. After all, it had been a horrible day for him that day... everything in his life collapsing piece by piece.But then he had seen Ethan’s innocent concern… those earnest eyes as he asked if he was okay, even offering him a piece of advice no grown man would have expected to hear from a kid. And somehow, the anger had melted.That day
Chapter 239 – Ethan’s and Muscles’ History
******Every thug turned sharply toward the man Ethan had just called, their faces twisting in surprise, and brows knitting, their earlier ruthlessness faltering into a dumbstruck expression.“Uncle Muscles, really?” one of them muttered, his brows knitting against each other as he glanced around in perplexity.“Did he just call him uncle?” “He sounded like they’re close.” “But who put uncle before a nickname?” “It sounded absurd, yet he spoke it with such innocent sincerity.”Murmurs spread through the group in an instant, shattering the heavy silence that had hung over the scene just moments before. But before they could completely relax and laugh, forgetting the presence of the two people among them…“What’s going on here?”James’s voice rang out, sounding deep, dangerous, and heavily laced with barely restrained ferocity. Then he turned his glare to the man Ethan had just called Uncle muscles, his glare sharp enough to cut through steel.“You trying to play tricks o
Chapter 238 – Ethan’s Fear
******‘Who are these people?’ Ethan’s mind screamed, his eyes darting frantically across the aggressive, ferocious-looking men at his door.Subconsciously, he counted… one, two, three, each of them standing too still, and too controlled, like wolves waiting for the alpha’s command to pounce on their prey and tear it apart.Ethan had assumed it was Glenn at the door… his elder brother, and the one person he was eager to see. But this?This was something straight out of a nightmare.These people weren’t neighbors, friends, or even petty thugs and mere troublemakers.They looked like the kind of people you only saw in movies… those gritty, chaotic, and dangerous gangsters who always leave havoc in their wakes and commit every sort of crime imaginable.Even without realizing it, the excitement and wild rush of joy that had surged through him seconds ago had already crumbled into cold dread. And now, the air was thick and oppressive for him, as though fear itself had materialized a
Chapter 237 – James and His Gang’s Arrival
******Ding! Ding!!The sharp sound of the door alarm suddenly cut through the quiet house, causing Ethan to freeze mid-step, his heart skipping a bit in his chest.“Huh?” His head jerked toward the door. “Who could that be?”He frowned, confusion clouding his expression.Checking the clock on the wall, his frown deepened. “Mom and Dad shouldn’t be home until ten… so who…?”It felt strange. No… unnatural.No one ever visited him, and the house was always his alone after school until his parents finally dragged themselves home long after dark.He had no friends and no neighbors who ever stopped by.“Could it be… a delivery?” he muttered to himself, glancing at the door again. But there he hadn’t ordered anything, and his parents hadn’t called to tell him any order was coming.Years of ingrained caution echoed in his head.Ever since he was a child, he had been warned never to open the door unless he knew exactly who was on the other side. And he had lived by that rule so lon
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