Chapter 89 Just Trust Me

"Aren't you going to protect him?" Gardenia was a little stunned. "Am I just a bad guy in your eyes?" Ansel felt like anyone in the world could call him a bad guy, except Gardenia. After all, the only good deed he had ever done in her life was taking in this orphaned girl. He still remembered that day. Gardenia's eyes had been so bright, so beautiful. She was timid, but there was an intense will to survive in her gaze. She had stood in front of his car, just like something you'd see in a TV show, stretched out her little arms, and said, "Mister, please adopt me." At the time, he almost wanted to find a mirror to check his face. Had the sun overseas aged him so badly? Did he really look that old? "No, it's just that you said Pablo worked for the Leager and Anderson families. Isn't that your family, too?" That's why Gardenia found his answer surprising. "I just share the Leager surname. The Leager family and I are separate things." Ansel had already stopped considering himself a