Clara didn't know what to do or say when they landed in a foreign place and stayed in a house amidst grasslands, between the forest and far from the urban areas. Despite its remote location, the house had hidden luxuries inside. Clara was given a room on the second floor, right in front of Lucas' room, which faced the backyard with a lake. She tried to walk there in the morning to calm her mind, but she found Jamie and some other people in black clothes with guns in their hands. She immediately turned away without saying anything, as she wasn't ready to see anything related to what happened in Lucas' apartment building."Come here," Lucas reached out his hand and invited her to sit beside him when she returned from the backyard.They didn't talk since last night.Lucas' explanation on the plane became their last conversation, as Clara couldn't bear to listen to anything else from him—it was all too complex, and she needed time to accept everything. Even when Lucas brought her to this

Clara couldn't help but count the days she spent in the house—a house located in the middle of the forest with intense silence. She hardly heard anyone talking in the house, even though she knew there were more than 20 people living there, including her and Lucas.The guards would take turns on duty during the night and patrolling different parts of the house throughout the night without ever stopping. They were rarely seen inside the house, but Clara knew some of them lived on the first floor, which had several rooms at the back of the house.Just as Lucas had said, there was always food available in the kitchen, and everyone ate after Lucas and Clara finished their meals together. It had been almost a week since they started living in this house, and every night she would sleep with Lucas—in the literal sense, where they didn't do anything but sleep. Since she had run to Lucas in the middle of the night after having a nightmare, he had been coming to her room every night after dinne

The last sentence Lucas said at the house still bothered Clara—making her think about it all night because she didn't get any explanation about it.However, it seemed that Lucas indeed did not want to explain anything about his statement... or get an answer to his question. Right after he said it, Lucas asked her to go inside the house as the night grew colder, and he noticed Clara's lips turning blue.Of course, Clara didn't refuse because that's what she wanted. She felt uncomfortable being in a crowded place with people she didn't know. However, she appreciated Lucas' reason for inviting her to sit there for a while.She stayed there because... Lucas didn't leave her—he sat next to her and made her feel like it didn't matter if she was in a crowd of strangers as long as she knew one of them.The barbecue continued as Clara noticed there were still plenty of leftover meats and sausages that hadn't been cooked yet. Faintly, she could still hear some people's voices outside in the yar

Clara pulled Anthony's suitcase as they got off the plane because she... didn't have anything to carry while Elena carried her own suitcase. She remembered finding some clothes in the house's wardrobe where she had stayed with Lucas for the past two weeks. She had asked Lucas for permission to wear them since she didn't have any clothes there, and he had allowed her. However, Clara didn't bring those clothes with her when she left because... they weren't hers. That's how it was...Lucas explained that she could use and take anything in the house because... everything was intentionally prepared for her, which left Clara a bit confused.Well, she knew that Lucas could ask anyone to prepare clothes for her, ranging from pants, t-shirts, shirts, beautiful dresses, sleepwear, and some evening gowns to underwear that perfectly fit her. However, of course, Clara couldn't take them home, could she?"My car is on the right," Lucas mumbled from behind as he walked while carrying the sleeping An

Lucas strode towards the helicopter prepared on the top floor of his apartment building—a residence he had owned for two years after purchasing the building from a property developer. This building wasn't under the control of Axton Corporation; he bought it with his personal funds and concealed his ownership by entrusting all management to one of his trusted individuals.Even though he bought this building secretly, it didn't mean his parents didn’t know of his ownership. They knew, and even Louis knew that Lucas intentionally bought the apartment building separately from all the Axton family assets.He did all of this not to separate his personal wealth but to deliberately conceal his ownership because this place was... his hiding place.The people residing in this apartment were not wealthy civilians who could afford to buy or rent units in an upscale area. Lucas bought this place as his sanctuary and the headquarters for all the operatives under his command. This building was... th