Declan was receptive enough to notice that something was off. He asked with furrowed eyebrows, “What is going on?”

Brendan placed his phone on the table and lit a cigarette. He narrowed his eyes and looked into the dark night and plants blowing in the wind outside the window, surrounded by smoke. His heart, which was boiling over with pain, only calmed down gradually at this very moment.

“I bailed out Charlene.”

Declan did not pay much attention to the case because he had more important tasks to attend to. He was surprised when he heard that.

“What happened?”

He could not help feeling that Brendan had lost his mind. He furrowed his eyebrows and speculated, saying, “Were you threatened?”

Sooner or later, Charlene would discover that Kyran was Brendan. It would be inevitable for her to want to take Brendan down with her when she found out about the situation and threatened Brendan with this.

Declan found it strange because how could Brendan be threatened if he were to migrate to