Once a Doormat Now Untouchable (Caleb and Sydney) novel Chapter 470

**When The Ocean Learned My Name and Whispered It Back to You by Aurelia Novel 470**

**Chapter 470**

Raymond felt a surge of anxiety as he observed Julian’s tense demeanor. He wanted to caution him against acting rashly. After all, Caleb was, in every biological sense, the father of their two nephews.

The moment that thought crystallized in his mind, a prickling sensation danced across his scalp, and he mentally chastised himself. If that particular detail ever slipped from his lips, he knew Julian would unleash his wrath—perhaps even twice over, just to drive the point home.

Desperation ignited a flurry of thoughts in his mind, each one more frantic than the last.

Just as Julian’s hand was poised to knock on the door, Raymond’s voice burst forth, almost a plea. “Wait, Sydney’s pregnant! If you start a fight and she gets upset, what if it affects the baby?”

The impact of his words was immediate. The fierce anger radiating from Julian began to dissipate almost instantaneously. After a brief, tense moment, his hand slowly lowered, the tension in the air shifting.

A flicker of darkness passed through Julian’s eyes before he managed a sharp, humorless smile. “Afraid I’ll end up killing him and leaving your unborn nephew an orphan?”

Raymond bit back the instinctive retort that bubbled up—“That’s your nephew too.”

Instead, self-preservation took precedence, and he cleared his throat lightly. “That’s not really it. Besides, who knows if it’s even my nephew yet?”

The truth weighed heavily on him; he still grappled with the notion that Penelope was genuinely the lost daughter of the Huttons. Even with an official paternity test presented in stark black and white, he found it hard to wrap his mind around the reality of it.

And he wasn’t alone in his skepticism. None of the Hutton siblings had fully accepted it either.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Tiffany had been holding back a multitude of questions, her curiosity bubbling just beneath the surface.

As soon as the door closed behind the two men, she turned to Sydney, her eyes sparkling with intrigue. “So, what’s the status between you and Julian now?”

“Exactly what you saw,” Sydney replied, pressing her lips into a thin line.

She leaned back against the wall, her gaze drifting to the ceiling, her voice dropping to a lower, rougher tone. “Tiff, do you know why he left me all those years ago?”

In a twisted turn of fate, she pondered whether, had circumstances been different, that bullet which had grazed Julian’s heart might have found its way to hers instead. He had always been the one to push her out of harm’s reach.

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