Chapter 76✨ · TRCR

“Then I’ll be off now.”

“Be careful.”

Danae looked at Rebecca with unmistakably worried eyes.

Theo, for his part, offered no verbal farewell; instead he fixed Yulian with a stare so laden with warning it might as well have been a blade drawn across the throat.

The message was unmistakable: lay one finger on my daughter and I will end you.

Yulian broke out in a light sweat and averted his gaze from Theo’s piercing look as best he could.

Under normal circumstances he would have laughed it off—Theo was never serious about such things—but tonight felt different. There was an edge to the air that made the threat feel uncomfortably plausible.

Yulian stole a sidelong glance at Rebecca’s profile as she waved goodbye to the family.

The moment their eyes met, he hurriedly looked away.

‘Here we go again.’

Yulian’s stolen glances had become something of an annual tradition…