He Saved the Heir, Then Won His Heart novel · Chapter 45 of 56

Chapter 45: Anybody

Shen Yan stood up so fast that the chair went over behind him.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Chen said.

"To my father's."

He walked out into the hall with the blanket still round his shoulders and took his coat off the hook.

"You can't go alone."

"Can't I?"

Shen Yan turned with one arm in a sleeve.

"You went to a prison alone. You went to a man who put you in a coma, and you told me it was chambers."

"I know what I told you."

"Then you know what it was."

Xiao Chen stood between him and the door without deciding to.

It was the wrong place to stand, and he stayed there anyway.

"Move, Chen."

"Please sit down. You're twenty-seven weeks, and you haven't eaten."

Shen Yan laughed, short and ugly.

"You count my weeks better than you tell me the truth."

"I was keeping it off you."

"Keeping what off me?"

"Gu. The lab. The name. You had the doctor's visit, and the board, and the babies, and I thought."

He stopped, because the end of the sentence was that Shen Yan could not carry it.

Shen Yan heard the end of it anyway.

"You thought I'd break."

"I thought you should be calm."

"Calm."

Shen Yan came a step closer, and his scent came with him, orange blossom turned bitter.

"Do you know what I hear, when you decide what I can hold?"

"Tell me."

"I hear the dinner."

Xiao Chen's stomach dropped.

"Anybody would have done it for a boy in that state," Shen Yan said, in a flat copy of his voice. "You said it in front of my father. You said it with my ring on the tablecloth."

"I said it to protect you from the headline."

"I know why you said it. I knew it by the next morning."

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