CHAPTER 776. PRINCESS BY DAY. WHY?Cameron felt like his heart was about to burst out of his chest.It had been ten years since he last spoke to his younger brother.Janick was twenty-four now, but maybe because of the poor care he had received, or all the surgeries, or perhaps the wheelchair he had been confined to for the last decade—he still looked like a pale, scrawny eighteen or nineteen-year-old."Ready?" Dandara asked, giving Cameron a little push into the room.But the moment he stepped through the door, Janick’s eyes went wide. As if he had just seen a ghost.In an instant, every monitor he was connected to spiked, and they watched him start to panic, his mouth opening and closing as he struggled to speak—or even breathe—until a few words finally escaped."You... No, this isn’t real... You’re dead... God, I’m hallucinating!"Cameron frowned, exchanging a confused look with Dandara. But unless they managed to calm him down, the doctors would have to sedate him.Janick was desp
CHAPTER 777. PRINCESS BY DAY. A Theater in RuinsJanick and Cameron exchanged frustrated looks. Catching up had been painful enough, but nothing compared to the realization that their parents had spent ten years telling the youngest Lake that his older brother was dead.And though neither of them understood why their parents would do something so cruel, they were about to find out—because no matter how hard Dandara tried to hold them back, it was becoming painfully obvious that Mrs. Lake had no boundaries.“Get the hell out of my way already! No one asked for my permission to move my son to this hospital!” the woman screeched.“No one needed your permission, ma’am,” Dandara replied firmly. “Janick Lake is an adult. He authorized his own transfer, as well as every other medical decision regarding his health. Besides, shouldn’t you be happy? Your son is finally in a hospital where he’ll receive the care he actually needs. And you won’t have to pay a single dime.”“That’s not the point!
CHAPTER 778. PRINCESS BY DAY. The TruthOf course, Janick and Cameron had no idea what Dandara was talking about. But she made it very clear when she grabbed the medical file from the clipboard at the foot of the bed and showed it to the parents of the younger Lake brother."You are his guardian only in matters of physical health, and only if he is unable to make decisions for himself. Nothing more," she stated firmly. "Controlling his entire life is a very different thing.""Well, controlling his life is our right, because we are not just his guardians on paper! We are his legal guardians, recognized by the state! And under no circumstances are we going to let him get involved again with—"There was venom in that woman’s voice, a horrible kind of poison, but she stopped herself before spitting it out—because Dandara stepped forward, looking very ready to slap her twice if necessary."Let me be very clear, ma’am," Dandara said, her voice sharp. "I will deal with that little guardiansh
CHAPTER 779. PRINCESS BY DAY. A VOLCANO ERUPTING“There’s something I don’t like about all this,” Dandara purred, her voice low despite everything.Dawn was still far off, and Cameron wasn’t surprised when, instead of heading toward the house, he saw her steering back toward the commercial district.“To be honest, I don’t like anything I’ve seen tonight at all, maybe because I don’t understand any of it,” he admitted wearily. “But what am I supposed to do?”“A lot,” she answered with determination. “There has to be some reason your parents are acting this way. It’s obvious they’ve been psychologically hurting your brother for ten years, so we’d better figure out the cause soon, or we won’t be able to help Janick.”Cameron nodded silently as Dandara stepped out of the truck, and he followed her into the office behind the massive enclosed parking lot.“What is this?” he asked when he saw her rummaging through one of the drawers and pulling out a special card, which she handed to him.“T
CHAPTER 780. PRINCESS BY DAY. WE NEED TO TALKAnd as strange as the request might have seemed, it really wasn’t. It was simply a man’s full awareness of what he had between his legs.Dandara sighed with every thrust, clinging to his lips as she felt every inch of that hot, rigid length sink into her, opening her, wrecking her, reveling in every pulse of her walls, which seemed to devour him.Her moans filled the silence of the early morning, and all she could feel was Cameron’s breath against her throat, the delicious growls escaping his mouth, intensifying every few seconds.The wet, violent plop plop plop of their bodies echoed in the room, and Cameron’s hands gripped her hips tightly, guiding that perfect rhythm that was driving him insane—though he wasn’t the only one bound in a straitjacket of pleasure.“God, you’re so damn tight,” he hissed through a choked groan, and Dandara threw her head back, offering her chest for him to devour almost desperately.“Don’t stop, baby… yeah… m
CHAPTER 781. PRINCESS BY DAY. BLIND BY CHOICEIt wasn’t a threat, just a bottle of something strong and two glasses, and yet Cameron felt like Jhon Hopkins had a gun pressed right against his chest. However, there was nothing left to do but face the situation head-on, so he finally sat down and took a deep breath while his boss poured their drinks."I think I made a mistake choosing you as my daughter’s bodyguard," he said bluntly, and Cameron held his breath because those words burned more than the bourbon. "At least the others chickened out quickly, but they had a certain sense of knowing their place. And I can’t help but feel that you’ve completely lost yours."Cameron pressed his lips together because no one needed to tell him that—he knew it perfectly well. But no matter how hard he had tried to keep his distance from Dandara, it had simply been impossible. So if Mr. Hopkins decided to fire him right then and there, he wouldn’t have a single argument to fight it."I guess, in the
CHAPTER 782. PRINCESS BY DAY. THREE MONTHSThere wasn’t much left to say. That was the absolute truth, and as Jhon Hopkins left as politely as he could, Cameron remained there, sitting at the bar, staring at the bottle and glass, knowing that the man who had just walked out was completely right.He understood. That was the worst part—Cameron understood. What father in his right mind would want his daughter involved in any way with a former convict? Having him as an employee was one thing, but having him as her partner was something entirely different.With a pained grunt, Cameron got up from the chair—his painkiller was wearing off, and that damn broken rib was starting to ache like hell. He took a shower as best he could, and when he wiped the mirror clear of steam, he realized that thought had never really left him."We’ve always known we’re not right for her," he told his reflection. That was exactly why he had fought against it for so long. "No matter what she is at night, by day,
CHAPTER 783. PRINCESS BY DAY. A TRUTH WORTH FIGHTING FORThere was no other possible answer, so Janick simply let out a sigh filled with determination."I’ll do whatever it takes. I don’t mind being examined, interviewed, or… I’ll do whatever it takes," he declared, and Cameron placed a hand on his shoulder."And in three months, when you’re out of the hospital, we’ll find a place where we can live together," he told him. "No matter how you leave this place, you’re going back to school, you’re going to make a ton of friends, and—""And are you going back to school?" Janick suddenly asked, and Dandara noticed the way her bodyguard pressed his lips together—that expression she had already learned to recognize as fake."We’ll think about all of that later, calmly," Cameron replied. "Right now, you just need to focus on yourself and know that everything’s going to be okay. That’s enough."Janick nodded slowly, but as soon as the lawyer asked Cameron for a minute to discuss the scheduling