“Mr. Shepherd, you worry too much,” Uriah said with a chuckle. “Mavis has never been scared of these things. She’s got guts, always has. If she was ever afraid, she sure didn’t learn it from me.”
“Whether or not she’s scared is her business,” Norton replied, glancing up at Uriah, “but as a man, it’s your job to look out for your girl.”
He gestured around them. “Look around, Uriah. Every guy here is taking care of his girlfriend or wife.”
“Women deserve to be protected, that’s all there is to it. Especially someone as pretty as Mavis. She ought to have someone by her side.”
Uriah’s jaw clenched. He shot Norton a furious glare, but when he looked around, he realized Norton was right. All around them, women of every age were being shielded by the men with them, from grandmas to teenage girls to little kids.
Uriah noticed Mavis’ attention had drifted to Norton again. The two of them were chatting, laughing about something, and Mavis was smiling brighter than he’d seen in a long time.
It made Uriah feel prickly and left out, but there wasn’t much he could do now except hover nearby, stewing in jealousy. He wished he’d gone to her sooner, but it was too late for that now. The crowd had gotten so thick, even Norton was getting pushed to the side.
Elsewhere, Calliope was hanging out with Silas, the two of them watching the festivities and exchanging quiet comments.
Monty and the rest had tagged along, but as more people poured into the street, they got separated and pushed into the heart of the swarm.
Suddenly, Monty and his group stumbled into what looked like a sacred circle around a priest, who was blessing baskets of bread and cheese, an old town ritual that everyone took seriously.
“Hey, watch it! You just disrupted the blessing!” someone snapped.
“Who let you push through here?”
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Oh wrestling expert ey? So is this Khamzat Chimaev or Shavkat Rakhmonov? Because Khabib's would be too haram....
Oh no. Million is just mix of Conor McGregor, Islam Makhachev, Mike Tyson, Max Holloway, Anderson Silva... I bet he lands 5sec flying knees like Jorge Masvidal too. Oh nope, 1sec knees. And has faster left hooks than Alex Pereira. Definitely would win UFC championship in every weight division including women. Poor Zhang Weili....
Okay so.... Million is now from East. Arctic wolf from East, modified genetically so he can manage his own Instagram and probably also box like Mike Tyson and snapping left hooks like Alex Pereira....
This is starting to be the same twister of abilities as Cassandra Yates and Tiffany. But question is, why the hell Silas can't just open his mouth and tell Caliope that she's the one whom he has in his heart. He would prevent a lot of misunderstanding. Seems like despite capability of talking with modified arctic wolf, she's not like telepathic....
Oh no, so FL is again another hidden genius with both hemispheres working on hundreds... Ffffuuuu. Cassandra Yates and Tiffany were already enough, ughugh. And Tiffany was even more exaggerated than Cassandra....
That's weird, in the first chapters there was said that her bio parents and bros doteď on Caliope but then they adopted Lisette, but this chapter suddenly says otherwise. Did author forget what he wrote?...
I REALLLYYY REALLLYYYY REALLYYYYYY WANT TO SLAP THE 3 BROTHERS WHENEVER THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH !!! AND THEIR MOM !!!...
Why has this not been updated ?? there were 5 more chapters which was released and it has not been updated.. Please do update on regular basis......