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Chapter 172: Cross Returns

作者: O.O
last update 公開日: 2026-08-11 06:50:47

Three weeks into my pregnancy, still adjusting to the surreal reality of expecting a second child after so many settled years, a letter arrived that none of us had anticipated — the familiar, careful handwriting immediately recognizable despite nearly a decade of silence.

Reyes brought it to us with visible surprise, her expression carrying a complicated mixture of caution and curiosity. “This came through the old channel,” she said. “Cross. After all this time.”

I opened it slowly, my hands tr
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  • THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH    Chapter 175: What They Chose

    We settled on names during a quiet evening several weeks after the baby shower, the decision arriving with less deliberation than we’d expected, given how naturally the right choice presented itself once we allowed ourselves to simply consider what genuinely mattered.“I keep thinking about Victor,” I admitted to Ethan, both of us sitting together in the nursery, surrounded by gifts and careful preparations for our family’s newest addition. “How much he changed, how much he came to mean to this entire family, especially these past years.” “You want to name the baby after him,” Ethan said, understanding immediately. “If it’s a boy,” I said softly. “Victor. I think it would honor everything he eventually became, not simply who he was during his more difficult years.”Ethan considered this seriously, something moved in his expression. “I love that,” he said. “What if it’s a girl?”I’d been considering this possibility as well, understanding the significance of continuing this family’s tr

  • THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH    Chapter 174: The Baby Shower

    With Cross’s story finally, completely concluded and every remaining thread from this family’s difficult history properly resolved, the household settled into pure, uncomplicated anticipation as my pregnancy progressed steadily through its second trimester, the household’s collective attention shifting fully toward joyful preparation rather than any lingering concern.Reyes organized the baby shower with characteristic thoroughness, though the planning process itself carried a lightness that felt entirely different from the careful, security-conscious preparations that had once defined nearly every family gathering. “No threat assessments required this time,” she said, laughing as she reviewed decoration options with Elena and Colette. “Just genuine, uncomplicated celebration.”“I could get used to this kind of planning,” I admitted, settling into the process with genuine relaxed joy rather than any underlying vigilance. “Simply choosing colors and themes, without needing to consider

  • THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH    Chapter 173: What Remained

    Cross passed away eleven days after our visit, the news arriving through a brief, formal notification from the hospice facility, understanding he’d apparently left specific instructions that our family be informed directly rather than through any other channel.I felt the news settle strangely within me — not grief exactly, given the enormous harm he’d caused throughout his decades of calculated cruelty, but something more complicated, a recognition of genuine, if painfully late, human transformation finally reaching its natural conclusion.“I don’t know how to feel,” I admitted to Ethan, processing the notification’s careful, formal language. “Relieved, I think. But also strangely sad, given everything he finally offered before the end.” “I think that’s exactly the complexity this whole family has learned to hold,” Ethan said gently. “Multiple true things existing simultaneously, without requiring simple resolution.”Colette received the news with visible, complicated emotion, tears

  • THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH    Chapter 172: Cross Returns

    Three weeks into my pregnancy, still adjusting to the surreal reality of expecting a second child after so many settled years, a letter arrived that none of us had anticipated — the familiar, careful handwriting immediately recognizable despite nearly a decade of silence.Reyes brought it to us with visible surprise, her expression carrying a complicated mixture of caution and curiosity. “This came through the old channel,” she said. “Cross. After all this time.”I opened it slowly, my hands trembling slightly as I recognized his precise, unhurried script.Lillian —I understand this may arrive unexpectedly, given the years of silence I’ve maintained since my last letter. I want to assure you immediately that this isn’t concern, isn’t warning. I find myself, simply, wanting to reconnect with the conclusion of an experiment I abandoned incomplete nearly a decade ago.I’ve followed your family’s continued story from careful distance — Devereux’s capture, your daughter’s remarkable growt

  • THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH    Chapter 171: An Unexpected Surprise

    Grief settled slowly into something gentler over the weeks following Victor’s funeral, the household finding its way back toward ordinary rhythm even as his absence remained tender and present in countless small moments — his empty garden chair, the business reports he’d once insisted on reading aloud to sleeping grandchildren, the particular quiet where his warm, steady presence had once been.It was during this careful return to normalcy that I first noticed something familiar stirring beneath the persistent fatigue I’d initially attributed simply to grief and the emotional weight of recent months.“You’ve barely touched breakfast,” Ethan observed one morning, watching me push eggs around my plate with distinct lack of enthusiasm. “I don’t feel quite right,” I admitted, though something in the particular quality of the nausea tugged at memory I hadn’t examined properly in over fifteen years. “Should we call the doctor,” Ethan asked, concern evident. “Maybe,” I said slowly, my mind w

  • THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH    Chapter 170: Victor’s Peace

    Victor passed peacefully in his sleep three months after Eleanor Sarah’s fifteenth birthday, the household receiving the news with a grief tempered by something gentler than the sharp, unexpected losses this family had once known — a full life, properly lived, ending exactly as he’d told me he’d hoped it might, surrounded by the genuine love he’d spent his final years learning to fully embrace.I found him myself, that morning, when he didn’t emerge from his room for his usual breakfast, something already peaceful in his expression despite the shock that immediately gripped me. The doctor confirmed what I already understood — his heart had simply, quietly stopped, no pain, no struggle, exactly the gentle passing this remarkable man had ultimately earned through years of difficult, genuine transformation.“He looks peaceful,” Ethan said softly, joining me in the quiet room, his arm steady around me as grief began settling in slow, complicated waves. “He was peaceful,” I said, tears fal

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