#Chapter 55: Fated Dad

Amber’s POV With the promise of meeting later, Julian left. The moment he stepped out the door, Anna returned through it, worry in her eyes. “What happened? What was he doing here? What did he say?” she said, words spilling out of her practically all at once. I filled her in as best as I could, telling her nearly everything that I said. As I did, her frown grew larger and her worry more deeply set, creating a deep grove between her brows. “I don’t trust him,” Anna said at once. “He tricked you with that perfect project to track you and Alice down here? Is the project even real?” “He says it is,” I replied, though my own doubts were rising. What if he really did just create that false project to track Alice and me down? No, maybe that was part of it, but he couldn’t mean to deprive the children of the healthcare as projected in the plan. The plan was too well-thought out to be fake. It had a solid basis and a good strategy. It would be too cruel to make something like this