Chapter 125 Bloodlines
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Flynn dipped his head gratefully. “Then I’ll leave it in your hands, Mr. Gunn. I need to return to my mother’s side.”
Baron didn’t try to stop him. “I’ll have someone see you out.”
“No, no–that’s not necessary.” Flynn was clearly uneasy in this world of Baron’s, and hurried toward the exit.
Out in the courtyard, Natalie had stepped away from her room. Her sketches had stalled, inspiration slipping through her fingers, so she’d gone out to breathe and reset.
The crunch of footsteps on stone made her turn. Flynn stopped short.
Their eyes met. For a heartbeat, his face showed not admiration but shock.
The kind of shock that said <i>you </i><i>shouldn’t </i><i>exist</i>.
Natalie frowned. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
Flynn startled, color rushing back into his face. “Forgive me, miss. You just… you look very much like someone from my family. Someone who’s passed away. I didn’t mean to stare.”
Baron emerged just in time to hear those words.
Family? Flynn and Natalie?
He remembered the donor reports, the uncanny match. A possibility took root.
Could Flynn truly be tied <i>to </i>Natalie by blood?
Natalie had been ready <i>to </i>scoff at a cheap line, but Baron cut in smoothly. “Natalie, let me introduce him properly. This is Flynn Stone–one of the people who donated skin for your grafts.”
Her breath caught. She stepped forward quickly, offering her hand, “Mr. Stone, I’m sorry, I was rude a moment ago.”
“No harm done<i>.</i><i>” </i>
Flynn’s grip was brief, his eyes lingering on her face. Too much like… too much. If not for his sister’s grave, he could have sworn she stood here now.
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But fate hadn’t given her that kind of
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He forced a smile. “Mr. Gunn, I’ll take my leave.”
“Safe travels.”
Baron gestured for a man to escort him out.
Natalie’s gaze trailed after Flynn, her brows faintly furrowed.
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Baron’s arm slid around her waist, tugging her close. “Natalie, you n to stare at another man in front of me? Am I invisible to you?”
She blinked, thenughed under her breath. “You’re imagining things. Besides you, who would ever look twice at me?”
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His blunt protectiveness made her shake her head, amused and exasperated all at once.
Still, her eyes followed Flynn’s shadow. “Why was he here? He didn’te for money, did he?”
Baron chuckled. “The Stone family? Hardly. Their fortune isrger than you’d think. Flynn came to ask me to reach Witch Doctor. His mother–Ruby Stone, another donor–developed a clotting disorder.”
Natalie’s chest tightened. “Because of the donation?”
“It’s possible. Or something else entirely. Only Witch Doctor will know for sure.”
Natalie studied him sidelong. “You and Witch Doctor must be close. No one else can ever find him, yet you… he <i>does </i>everything you ask.”
Her words made his pulse hitch. For a moment, he nearly told her the truth–that Witch Doctor was him.
But then he remembered the sins of five years ago, the shame she still carried.
He tried carefully: “And… what do you think of Witch Doctor?”
Natalie’s lips curved in a cold half–smile. “A weirdo. Brilliant hands, rotten soul.”
She turned away.
Baron’s chest sank heavy and cold.