My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 559

Mark looked at the two pictures and smiled happily. “Everybody’s here; all of them are here…”

However, Nathan was staring at another picture in a daze—it was a picture of Mark and a young man. That man in the picture was the same man in the car outside the military compound—his name was Cooper Mitchell.

Sophia came to the military compound and lived a life like a retiree. Waking up at 6:30 AM every day, she went jogging and exercising with Old Master Fletcher. The old man might have been a hundred years old, but his body was still strong and healthy. Moreover, he insisted on working out his body. Hence, he went jogging every day. After jogging with a bunch of old men, she had her breakfast. Then, she carried a bottle of wolfberry water with her while playing chess with Old Master Fletcher. Either that or she would accompany the old man out for a walk and practice Tai Chi.

On the second day since her arrival, she ran into Joel when she went out to buy some snacks at night. He was the one person she had been trying to avoid.

After the ball at the Edwards Residence previously, she had not dared to face him again. Moreover, she had blocked both his phone number and his Messenger account. When she came to visit Old Master Fletcher at the military compound, she had been afraid of running into him. Alas, they met anyway.

In the darkness of the night, she could not see his eyes clearly. They seemed like two pools of water at the bottom of an old, abandoned well at night. She couldn’t tell the depth or temperature of his gaze—all she could see were two black pits.

He stepped forward. His army boots had left a trail of footprints in the snow. When she saw the spot where he had been standing, she noticed many footprints in the surrounding area. It was obvious that he had been waiting there for a while now. As he approached her, she responded by retreating backward, step for step.

Joel and Michael were very different. Although Michael used to be in the army, he had spent many years in the entertainment circles. Therefore, he had learned to control the military aura that he had around him—he could release it or withdraw it as he wished. However, Joel could not hold his aura back. He was somebody who had killed in battle before. Thus, he carried a bleak and chilling air around him that came from leaving a pile of bodies in his wake on the battlefield. It left a fangirl like Sophia shivering in fear in his presence.

Joel fixed his gaze on Sophia. “Are you terrified of me?”

Sophia had thrown a military coat over her pajamas when she came out to buy some snacks. Under his imposing aura and the freezing winter wind, she was trembling uncontrollably. Upon hearing his question, she cowered slightly as she answered, “A-A little bit.”

His footsteps stilled and he did not continue approaching. Instead, he asked calmly, “Is he troubling you?”

Naturally, the ‘he’ he was referring to was Michael. Thus, she quickly shook her head. “No…”

Then, he asked, “Am I bothering you?”

She was tempted to answer, ‘Yes.’ However, she felt too embarrassed to say it. After all, he was one of the grandsons Old Master Fletcher was very proud of. Besides, Woody was here too. Since she constantly came over to visit, it would be bad if she couldn’t get along with Joel. Therefore, she organized her thoughts in her head and mustered up her courage to look at the man standing one head taller than her. Solemnly and seriously, she said, “General, as you should know, I’m your sister-in-law. As such, I believe we should maintain an appropriate distance between us.”

Under his increasingly frigid gaze, she felt her arrogant confidence slipping away slowly. The intensity of this man’s aura was simply too powerful. He was a man who could restrain an entire army by himself—the aura he carried was not something an ordinary person could withstand!

In an instant, her complexion became deathly pale. The person Michael truly loves and cannot let go of… She had a vague idea who it was but had deliberately ignored it until now.