Chapter 247: Precautionary Measures
Torin was scratching his head as he helped Lyra move her things to Zach’s apartment. Then he lowered his head when he met Sheila’s piercing gaze.
Auntie Sheila was definitely not happy with what happened, and she was now punishing them. She would not allow Lyra and Torin to live under the same roof before marriage.
"Stop sighing, Torin! It’s not like you’re a province apart from Lyra," Sheila chided him with a raised brow. She was not against their relationship at all. Call her conservative, but she definitely had an issue with her daughter living together with a man without marriage.
She knew how Torin felt about Lyra. He would like to marry her, and he had been honest and vocal about it. But it was not that simple. Torin should first get approval from the elders, and especially from her oldest son, Zach...
She had gathered that Lyra was staying at Torin’s place with Zach’s approval. But he had given it without the knowledge of their true feelings toward each other. These two really needed to be reprimanded.
"I have decided that I will stay here until Zach returns..." Sheila declared, to which Lyra and Torin dropped their jaw. Torin quickly composed himself and said, "Oh, that’s good then, mom. It is indeed better to stay here because traveling from and to the province could be tiring..."
Sheila was suppressing her smile at how awkward Torin’s expression was. ’This child is so bad at lying. You think I don’t know the two of you could not wait for me to leave?’ she laughed at him inwardly, but she didn’t voice it out loud.
Torin’s mobile phone rang, and he answered it.
Torin’s heart lurched, and he suppressed a shiver, but he tried hard to snap out of it, so Lyra and Sheila would not notice the sudden chill on his face. It was Janus informing him about another body that was found...