89- Unpredictable life

Back to the third pov after the flashback:

After listening to the whole story, there was silence in the room. Marwick stood up tiredly from his seat and went to River who was laying drowsily in Keanu’s arms.

“If you knew about my father, then why you people didn’t approach me?” he asked them in an expressionless voice. To River, he appeared more like a heartless man.

She didn’t know why Keanu gave him high regard.

“Our calls were being monitored. What do you think? Ashton and. Mr. Brown can’t hire a hacker to hunt us down. We had to take precautions. We didn’t know if our car and apartment were being tapped. We didn’t want to take risks.” Keanu explained.

“Secondly, we didn’t have much time to plan anything.” River spoke, “The day we got to know about cancer was the same day Arabella came to us heartbroken. We couldn’t disappoint her. She was confused about how she would do it. We had to lie to her. We told her that you were a di*ck and sent me divorce papers.”

Marwick picked up the j