Chapter 525 His Bottom Line

“I happened to read some ancient wolf–n battle array texts. If you’re interested, I can bshare /bbthem /bbwith /byou.”

Xavier fell silent..

Tessa seized the moment. “Avery carried this burden for five years. You know how much he loves bmusic/bb. /bYou’ve lived this mercenary life long enough to know the dangers. Are you really willing to trap him bin /bbthis /bforever?b” /b

Xavier’s eyes flickered with conflict, his expressionyered and unreadable.

“You don’t understand, kid,” Xavier said lowly. “Those energy crystals for modifying the battle barray /bbaren’t /beasy toe by. Outsiders can’t be trusted with session–loyalty’s never guaranteed. Things in this bcorps /baren’t as simple as you think.”

He waved a hand. “That’s enough. I’ll let your little visit slide this time. Go home.”

There was no reason to keep talking. In his eyes, there was no other option–Avery was his only son. He had to inherit Coldfang Mercenaries.

“I truly hope you’ll think about this, carefully. None of us want Avery to get hurt. We all want him to be happy.”

But just as she finished speaking and was about to leave, amotion erupted outside.

Avery burst into the room.

“Dad! I told you not to touch the people around me! I said I’d do anything you asked, but you couldn’t iy /ia hand on them. How could you go back on your word?” The moment Avery learned that Tessa had shown up at Coldfang Mercenaries, hepletely lost hisposure.

He stormed in, yanked Tessa behind him protectively.

“Tessa, are you okay? Did he hurt you?”

“I’m fine,” Tessa said calmly, grabbing his wrist. “Don’t get so worked up. He didn’t bring me here–I came on my own.”

Avery stared at her,pletely thrown.

“What do you mean, Tessa? I told you–stay out of my business. Why would youe here? bWhat /bif something happened to you? What would I do?”

He was furious.

Didn’t she understand how worried/people would be?

“I didn’t mean anything by it,” she said. “I just wanted to talk to your father.”

Avery’s face darkened.

He knew he had overreacted. But what could he do? When it came to bTessa/bb, /bbhe /bbcould /bbnever /bbstay /bbcalm/b.

“Tessa, just go home. Stay out of this, from now on.”

b11:11 /bbThu/bb, /bb3 /bbJul /bbA /b

b@G /b

Chapter 525 His Bottom Line

Tessa frowned. “Avery-”

But he said nothing more.

“bJust /bgo.”

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Seeing that he was genuinely upset, she didn’t push it. It was clear nothing more could be done today.

“I’m sorry for the interruption,” she said to Xavier before turning to leave.

She quietly shut the door behind her.

“Avery,” Xavier said as soon as she was gone, “you like her, don’t you?”

It was obvious from his reaction.

Avery didn’t answer.

“I was wrong today. I’m sorry. But I’m warning you–don’t ever hurt the people around me again,” he bsaid /bcoldly.

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“Avery,e on, you’re my son. Could you stop being such a like her, then go for it!”

After fighting with Tessa and talking to her, Xavier’s view had shifted. If she were to be his daughter- inw… that wouldn’t be so bad.

At the very least, with her around, no one would dare bully Avery.

“Dad, Tessa already has a destined mate. Don’t start with this nonse again. And stop threatening my friends. That’s my bottom line.”

“So what? Even if someone has a destined mate, they can reject them or get rejected. Happens all the time. If you like her, fight for it!”

“There’s no point talking to you. I’ve got stuff to do.” With that, Avery turned and left the study.

After leaving Coldfang Mercenaries, Tessa walked in silence, frowning in deep thought.

She’d known Xavier wouldn’t be easy to reason with.

Beliefs like his were deeply ingrained.

It wasn’t something that could be changed with a few words.

iWhat /iicould /iishe /iido /iito /iihelp /iiAvery /iiout /iiof this/ii? /i

Suddenly, her phone rang, cutting off her thoughts.

She nced at the caller ID and answered. On the other end, someone’s bexcited /bbvoice /bbrang /bbout/b:

“Poetry, we got the Moonstone!?