Hattie insisted on seeing Theo. Her expression was one of looking for trouble as she looked at me.
"Mom, don't trouble others like that!" Nicky was really anxious. She pulled at Hattie impatiently.
I had never seen her like this.
"Nicky, don't say anything if you don't understand the situation. I'm thinking of you and paving a way for your future. No matter what this Theo looks like, he's still a man. You saved his son, so he has to be responsible!" Hattie stated her words clearly. She seemed adamant about it.
Hattie turned her attention to me again. " Go and call your husband down!"
Before I could speak, I heard familiar footsteps behind me.
It was Theo.
He and Keith arrived one after the other, their auras quite prominent.
He put his hands in his pockets and came forward to Hattie. He shielded me behind him and then glanced at Nicky first before looking at Hattie. "Are you Nicky's mother?"
His innate, majestic demeanor was no child's play. Hattie's own imposing aura was suppressed all of a sudden. She forced herself to look at Theo and puffed up her chest. "Y-Yes. You’re Theo Grant, Wanda Lane's husband, yes?"
"That's me."
Hattie pulled the photographer. "You came just at the right time. Are you going to be responsible for my Nicky?"
The camera was facing Theo. He hated this the most. He turned his face away with impatience on his face. "It's such a small injury, yet you want me to take care of her for the rest of her life?"
The question he asked back dropped the surrounding temperature to freezing point.
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