Chapter 45: I Want Him!

Before Christian Yale could even finish speaking, the entire courtyard's mood flipped. Marceline Balam's hand shot to her waist on instinct, then froze. Empty. She had rushed out too fast and forgotten her sidearm. The bodyguards reacted at once, shifting to shield Freya Balam behind them as they swept the area with wary eyes. Then- "WHO WAS IT?!" A beastlike roar detonated at the courtyard entrance, rattling eardrums. Everyone snapped their heads around. An elderly man in a gray Zhongshan...