Chapter 173 Anxious Departures

• ALESSIA
• "Why were you talking to that person?" I asked Adrian as we stood in the elevator, heading back to our room after the reception. My heart raced with anxiety. Claude had approached Adrian, and it made me uneasy. What if he suspected something about our son? I couldn't risk it. We needed to leave now.
• It felt as if all the things that I feared were just projected right before my eyes. I knew what Claude could do, to think that he had all the connections and the resources. He was a selfish man, he took everyone under him as his possessions. The way he treated me like something with zero values remained in my memory. I didn't want such treatment to be upon my son.