Chapter 161They landed at two minutes to ten a.m, as the chopper raced through the tarmac, before finally coming to a halt. The pilot came out of the cockpit and smiled at his passengers. “ I hope you have a good trip flying back to Venice, my brother will be picking you up soon.” He said while adjusting his cap.Fred stood and trudged gently toward the door, as they made way to alight. “Oh, we are flying back immediately as soon as I get the signals from the tower.” The pilot told him. It was just a quick stop so that they could drop Henry. “Oh, okay.” Fred replied and watched as everyone hugged Henry as he prepared to alight too. “I'll miss you.” He heard Clara tell Henry as they hugged for the umpteenth time. Now they weren't even hiding their affection anymore, and it made him smile. He could feel the tension between both of them, and was sure that they were going to last. Henry stared at her like she was going to disappear in a minute, and he chuckled loudly, cutting their a

Chapter 163“Just drive me home.” Henry replied, not having time to talk about anything. There was no need for him to start explaining anything to a total stranger. Without thinking much, he decided to text pops again.“Can you please send me Clara's number if she's settled in?” He inquired, and Pops took a minute before replying.He had figured that Pops was probably busy. “ Thank you.” He responded and dialed her number immediately.“ Hey, how are you doing?” He inquired and she chuckled. “I'm good, I'm just lounging in the garden, taking in some cool breeze.” Henry felt more energetic talking to her as he stared on, his eyes meeting the drivers who were busy staring at him. “ I hope you don't run me into a ditch.” He said, and the driver faced his front immediately.“That's cool, have you spoken to Adrien?” He inquired, knowing fully well that was one of her greatest fears.“Yeah, funnily enough, he wasn't as angry as I had expected, he was even telling me not to be afraid of any

Chapter 165Clara's eyes narrowed at her brother in anger. " How dare you talk about the people who helped you? Gave you a shelter over your head, and made sure your mother had quality healthcare?" Adrien clutched his cheek, his eyes roaming through his sister's eyes, "Why are you fighting with me?" He said and Clara pointed at him and wiggled them at him in warning. "You have to look beyond what you are shown. I don't believe that you would want to return to the infinitesimal circle of running around." Clara was gobsmacked by her brother's ingratitude. It was one thing for someone to reject an offer but to talk in a degrading manner about a person who had been nothing short of a helper and still having the guts to stay under his roof was pure foolery. "You're evil and I dislike you for this. It's annoying. I can't think that you of all people, after everything that he has done for you would ever utter this statement. Can I tell you what this is? Sheer ingratitude and I won't toler

Chapter 167Henry had mixed feelings about the incident back home. A part of him wanted to run back as soon as he could while the logical side told him that Pops could even get disappointed by his lack of control for the lack of a better word. Also, it could complicate issues. Now that Pops was in distressed health, he couldn't pull the strings to leave Venice at will. Thus making him arrive at the conclusion that it was better that he made sure that he saw the trial through hopefully he would be able to be home as soon as possible. " Good morning, sir" George greeted him when he saw Henry sitting by himself on a reclining chair, with his brows creased, and lips curled up. He occasionally ran his hands through his air as if that would help to calm the tension that threatened to take his life if he was not careful."I didn't know that you were here." George continued and Henry raised his head slowly as if just realizing that he had company." Morning, George. I am relaxing." " Okay,

Chapter 169Henry rose swiftly from the bed, a resigned sigh escaping his mouth and his brows drooped in exhaustion as he stared at his phone. He groaned, now he wasn't going to get any sleep.Tired of being holed up in the room, he decided to take a walk but just to the balcony to reduce the risk of running into Jess although the chances were little. Worry got the best of him as he opened the door to the balcony.Why he felt different about this threat baffled him. But it looked too calculated and real, the lady sounded very serious about it. He could only imagine her as someone who had all her resources put together ready to execute her actions. As scary as that sounded, it made him want to become more alert.No, he had no one in this city, not even Caine therefore he had to find his way out of this mess. He couldn't drag Liam nor George into his problem because of what happened to everyone that was involved before.He sighed and walked right to the ledge. His hands ran over them so