Chapter 839



Chapter 839:

He did not look up. "The shards might cut you."

She immediately understood what he meant.

He was... trying to protect her?

Her throat tightened.

Her eyes burned with the sting of unshed tears. She watched his crouched figure, hands carefully collecting the sharp fragments. A part of her wanted to scoff to call his concern a performance. But the sight of him like that—quiet, unflinching, real-left her stunned, her defenses cracking.

The door banged open, making her flinch.

"Linsey!" Dolores' voice rang out. She stopped short at the doorway.

Behind her, Dustin froze mid-step.

Both of them stared at the same scene. Collin was silently gathering broken glass.

"Collin! What are you doing?" Dustin rushed over. "This isn't something you should be handling yourself. Just let someone else take care of it."

Collin quietly cleaned the floor, his face calm as he wrapped the glass shards in thick paper. Without looking up, he said, "It's nothing." Then he turned slightly to Dolores and spoke politely. "I'll leave the rest to you."

He had wanted to say more, but with everything going on, he knew he had no right to meddle in Linsey's matters.

So he held back and gave Dustin a short glance. "Let's go."

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