Chapter 123 Ride Or Die(2)

• “Maybe more than a few.” Remembering all the chaos that happened the first few weeks after Waylen took over his father made me smile in not-so-fond memory. Malik would have treated me better than that. “It was more like a few weeks. Waylen can be annoying when he wants.”
• “But you don’t love him any less.”
• Our footsteps echoed in the entire building. We paused at the top of the stairs for him to catch his breath. My heart swelled in awe and concern for him. I had been so into my own needs I forgot about him. He was a lonely man, but he masked it very well. It was work and home for him. I couldn’t say if his meetings with Ansgar were for work purposes or a hangout between two friends, but I suspected the former to be the case.