The Shell Begins to Crack

Hearing his answer, Chris couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled as he hung up the phone.

This feeling of blood being thicker than water was extremely difficult to describe.

He watched the boy lying in the incubator, and what came to his mind turned out to be an image of him riding on Paul's shoulder when he was a child.

Perhaps, he would never learn the kindness of his parents if his father had not taken care of him in the past.

He and Paul had been at loggerheads for more than ten years, and now his son seemed to be the key to breaking the ice between them.

...

–Bali, three o'clock in the afternoon.

Samuel came to the twelfth floor of the apartment, about to meet Erika.

He had met her in the past two days. He had worked step by step and calculated carefully. In order to prevent things from falling apart, he had not actively asked for her number until now.

Samuel also enjoys getting along with Erika.