The harsh ringing of Liam’s phone disrupted his thoughts. He reached blindly for it, his mind still fixated on Taylor and her mother. Now that Esther had explicitly expressed her desire for a grandchild, his urge to escape grew even stronger. A child would bind him to Taylor for life, and he wasn’t sure that was what he wanted.
“Hello?”
Albert Shawn’s voice breezed through. “Mr. Laurent? Thank goodness you answered. I’ve been calling you for ages.”
Liam checked his phone then and saw that he’s had over thirty missed calls from different people in the past four days. It made sense that his phone had died when lots of people were calling in the middle of his rejuvenation. For a minute there he was scared that the ritual he performed on Albert’s household and family did not work.
“Can I h
