Chapter 44

Caelus could tell something was wrong while being some distance away. He strode over and stopped beside Luna. “What’s going on?”

He did not need Luna to answer the question when he saw Ruth. He already had a guess. “It’s been a while, Ruth.”

Ruth said nothing.

Luna did not notice that there was something strange about Caelus’s behavior.

Her eyes were trained on the security guards who were drawing closer to surround them. Her heart raced in trepidation, and she tugged on Caelus’s sleeves. “Are you done, Caelus?”

Caelus snapped out of his daze. “They have a new policy and insists on us paying in full. We need a bit more money, but your father can get it, so it should be fine.”

Once Luna heard that things were okay, she calmed down. That meant that she was technically considered an owner of one of the properties here.

She straightened up and said to the security guard, who had come over in an elegant but proud voice, “I thought that Kingsland Manor residential area is off-limit