Chapter 435

No one had inspired that kind of protectiveness in him since his grandparents had passed. Okay, that wasn’t exactly true. He felt that way about his friends and their partners. He was even willing to beat Brian—attempt to beat Brian—to a pulp because of what went down between him and Cassie in their early courtship. But the fact was, there had been no other woman in his life that he wanted to protect like he wanted to protect Emma and, curiously, her sister. Spending time with them at the hospital had given him an insight into their little family and he wanted to look after them. After seeing where Emma and her sister lived he could understand a little bit more why Emma was so set on finding a rich man. It didn’t excuse her blatant gold-digging, but he could kind of understand it a little bit more now that he knew her current circumstances. She had her sister to think about and he couldn’t imagine her wage would stretch all that far. He should do something about that. “All set,” she sa