End of the World? I'm the Boss novel Chapter 420

Chapter 420 Woken Up

Ryan eyes opened to the sight of Seven sitting cross-legged beside him and Lovi tying

around nearly

came out raw and cracked, barely above a whisper. Dad

Seyyn had been awake the whole day, running himself into the ground looking after his wife. and son, and the exhaustion had pressed him almost completely under.

But the moment he heard Ryan’s voice, his eyes snapped open. “Ryan, you’re awake!” He sounded happy.

Dad…”

The boy had been holding it together for so long, and now that his father was right there in front of him, all of it came apart at once. Tears rolled down his face in a steady stream. “You finally came for me. You came, you came, you came. Dad, there was this awful man down there. He grabbed my water bottle and drank all my water!

And he kept saying you weren’t going to come back for us. I knew he was lying. I knew it.” Sevyn’s expression shifted sharply. “Someone took your water bottle?”

“Yes!” Ryan’s lips were cracked and peeling from dehydration. “He was so mean. He bullied me.”

The picture snapped together all at once in Sevyn’s mind.

He’d been played.

He’d actually believed that man’s story, and the entire time, the man had been tormenting his son down in the dark.

Ryan’s cracked lips broke Sevyn’s heart on the spot. He immediately pulled out the small bottle of water Ella had given him, the one he’d been holding onto without letting himself drink a drop of it.

‘I’m sorry, son. I should’ve been there.”

He ran his hand over Ryan’s forehead. The fever Robin’s medicine had broken was completely

gone now.

He tipped a few small sips of water into Ryan’s mouth, watched the boy drift back under into a deep, heavy sleep, and let his expression settle into something cold and controlled.

He turned. The man from the rubble was standing not far away, his eyes fixed on the water bottle in Sevyn’s hand with barely-veiled longing.

mm for a long measured moment

Yeah. He di

rey felt a small knot of tension case in his chest. Sevyn’s tone wasn’t off, which treat the probably hadn’t said anything. It had been pitch dark down there, and the boy came up onscious, so there was a solid chance Geoffrey’s face hadn’t even registered. Bids that ar Vrgot things all the time.

e was already mentally drafting a strategy to build a friendly rapport with Sevyn and ventually get closer to Robin’s group.

He cleared his throat, casting around for a conversation opener. Then Sevyn said. “What do

u think of my son?”

you

-eoffrey blinked. “He’s… he seems great…”

Then why were you bullying him down there?”

Geoffrey’s pupils contracted.

That little snitch had already talked, in the thirty seconds between waking up and now.

He forced a smile onto his face and kept his voice steady. “Sevyn, what are you even saying: Why would I bully your son? He’s a sweet kid.”

Sevyn looked at him with steady eyes. “He says you took his water bottle and drank it. He also

told him I wasn’t coming back for him.” ay’s you

The kid remembered everything.

Every word.

Geoffrey had been counting on a fever-muddled eight-year-old to forget the details, and the oy had apparently catalogued every single thing like a little court reporter.

He still had plans here. He still needed Sevyn’s goodwill to work his way closer to Robin’s group. One child’s account was not going to derail this.

Geoffrey let his face shift into something wounded and earnest. “Sevyn, you’ve got me wrong here. I had absolutely no intention of hurting Ryan. I heard him saying he was getting sleepy. I thought, if he and his mom both fell asleep and you managed to find them, how would anyone know to call out?

out of them on p and somethi And it worked didn’t it? You heard their voices when can’t always follow the logic of what adults are trying to do. He

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