"Let the driver go back first and wait for my call." Dolphus ordered Richard. He reached out, taking the suitcase from Elena’s hands. With his other arm, he held Lexa against his chest. His dark aura flared for a moment. “Take the way forward,” he told Elena.
Her tiny hand twisted into the cloth of his shirt, refusing to loosen its hold. Those big, cautious eyes stole a glance at Elena.
Elena walked beside him. The crowd’s eyes burned into her, their weight trailing across the pavement with each step. All eyes might have turned to his height, but it was the startling sight of him holding a child in one arm and dragging a suitcase with the other that stopped the air cold.
Just as Dolphus and Elena disappeared through the exit with the child, the higher-ranked of the Farrington Corporatio
