Chapter 504

"We're late, Second Young Master. Please punish us." Alexander Cross stood tall, exuding a commanding presence. "Enough useless talk. Clean this mess up first." "Yes, sir!" They responded in sync. Leslie Green arched a brow. Bodyguards? Yeah, this Alexander didn’t seem like some regular professor. "Well, since Professor Cross has his people here, we’ll be heading off." Just as Leslie turned to leave, Alexander called after her. "Leslie, I feel this strange closeness to you. Like, I genuinely like you. You said you didn’t have a brother, right? If I offer to be your big brother, can I still do that? I’m the second in my family, so just call me Second Brother. And I can call you Little Les, yeah?" Broderick Ackerley immediately felt a twinge of unease. "Les doesn’t really need another brother, so you don’t need to pretend to be one," he said. "Les, let’s go." Leslie didn’t embarrass him at all. "Professor Cross, being my brother isn’t completely off the table. But it’s not that simple. B