deformed bone

Calvin bent his elbow and slammed backwards, hitting the man directly in the stomach.The other party let out a sound of gasping with great restraint, but he never let go of Calvin's hand.And just when Calvin was about to attack for the second time, the most familiar voice sounded in his ears.

"It's me, damn it, Calvin, it's me."

Calvin paused.

He turned his head in disbelief, only to realize that the man was Aizhak.

However, Isaac did not give him time or opportunity to speak. At the moment Calvin gave up resisting, he carried Calvin down the tree with an extraordinary dexterity.And almost at the same time, the curtain of the window that had been peeped at before was ripped open.

Dim yellow light streamed out of the window, and Imogen Pain's thin face appeared somewhat blurred in the backlight.He stared at the slightly shaking treetops and frowned until a hoarse meow came from the night.

"I don't like this tree."

Imogen tapped his fingers on the window sill and said softly.

Anna knelt at his feet, gazing at him fascinated.

"I'll let the gardener take care of it tomorrow."

She responded with unusual obedience, her voice overflowing with flattery and gallantry that couldn't be ignored.

Imogen stretched out a hand to stroke her hair expressionlessly, and he liked Anna's position because from this angle he could only see the top of Anna's head, the beautiful platinum-blonde hair (even if it was only dyed out). of).

"You are a good boy."

Imogen said hoarsely, but his gaze went beyond the oak tree, the fence, and the darkening night to the distance. Thinking of the news he had received earlier, a frantic blush appeared on his face.

"May the Son of Light bless you."

He said.Then he put his fingers into Anna's hair, grabbed her body, and roughly dragged her to the narrow bed in the corner...

……

Hearing the groans from above, Isaac, who leaned against the oak tree motionless for a long time, finally let go of Calvin.

Without talking, the two of them quickly slipped out of the shelter's courtyard along the lovely shade of the flowers.

The moment Calvin jumped off the fence, he saw Isa on the other side of the street. The moment the little girl saw him, a look of mixed expectation and worry appeared on her face.Calvin forced a smile and waved at him.

"The meowing just now was really good. I never knew you had this talent."

After walking through the street, Calvin pretended to be nonchalant and said to Isaac.

Isaac grinned, and an extremely ugly smirk appeared on the face that looked much older from staying up late and tired.

"Yeah, I'm good at it. Guess what else I'm good at?"

The moment the voice fell, his fist had already landed on Calvin's face.

"boom--"

"Well."

The sound of fists touching flesh and Calvin's muffled grunt sounded at the same time. Calvin's face was turned to one side, and he staggered back two steps and finally stabilized his body.

Isa let out a gasp, but immediately covered her mouth with both hands, and took two quick steps back.

"Hey, you're scaring Isha."

Calvin spat bloody saliva and said.

Isaac sneered disdainfully.

"Oh, this is really weird, you can let an underage girl stay on the street late at night, but you are afraid that she will see her being beaten?"

"..."

Well, it looks like Isaac is really angry.

Calvin thought.

"Uh, actually..."

He licked his lips, trying to conjure up a reasonable explanation, but in the end he found that the only thing he could do was keep silent.

There was no reason he could have justified his reckless and thoughtless adventure.

"You're fucking infiltrating - I should fucking arrest you right now!"

Isaac pushed Calvin against the wall, he grabbed Calvin's throat, lowered his voice and growled viciously.

"Feel sorry."

Calvin whispered, and after a moment he repeated: "I'm sorry, I'm just... worried."

There was a dull pain in his fingertips, and his body was shaking all the time.

He wanted to explain everything to Isaac—he wanted this little girl, Isa, to continue living with a mother who loved her—even if her mother was a serious jerk.

Yet that bastard loves her daughter.

Calvin doesn't quite remember the appearance of the woman he should call his mother... He doesn't know whether the woman 15 years ago loved his son, and no matter the answer is "yes" or "no", everything is different. It was over that rainy night 15 years ago.

But now, he only hopes that on this planet, there is one person who can get the maternal love he deserves - even Calvin himself finds this idea a bit stupid and ridiculous: the Holden family protected him, and he has not yet been able to Escape the raids of the Adventists.Everything he does now has no effect except to put himself and Isaac in a disadvantageous situation.

Unprecedented frustration poured into Calvin's body, and he suddenly felt extremely tired.

He rubbed the tip of his nose.

"May I ask you to go there and get Madeleine out? Isa says she's not doing well."

He said.

The veins on Isaac's forehead collapsed, and his anger could be seen once again because of Calvin's plea.But under Isa's suddenly bright eyes, the police officer still agreed to Calvin's request... Of course, the result was not so pleasant.

Calvin hid on a street corner and witnessed the whole process.

After seeing the police officer's ID card, the asylum home that was particularly cold to Calvin finally opened the door to Isaac.However, the woman who appeared behind the iron gate caused Calvin to widen his eyes in shock.

That's Madeleine.

As Isa said, she had a wound on her neck—but it was well bandaged.She looked a little too excited, but compared with the crazy woman who was drunk and addicted to fans in the past, Madeleine at this moment can even be said to be quite normal.

"My God! Where did you go?!"

The moment she saw Isa she screamed, and then she hugged the girl, crying out about her worry and anxiety.

Isaac glanced at Calvin's direction from a distance, and Calvin couldn't see his face clearly, but even after being so far away, he could still feel the gloomy aura on Aizhak.

By the way, Isaac never liked Madeleine.

When Isaac finally leaves the shelter, his face is expressionless, the storm in his eyes.Calvin silently got into his police car two blocks away, and the atmosphere in the car was as solemn as a freezer full of frozen pork legs.

Calvin took out a cigarette from his pocket, and when he touched the fabric, his fingertips tingled again. He looked down at his hand, and found that the edges of the nails were coagulated with brown blood stains. The bark is injured.The scene he saw appeared in his mind again, and then he quickly lit the cigarette, and the hot smoke poured into his respiratory system, suppressing the strong nausea again.

"Look at the good deeds you have done...that damned woman is just a piece of skin!"

Ten minutes later, Isaac parked the car in a certain block away from the Shelter House, he turned off the engine, and said to Calvin.

"I heard people in there, a man and a woman, they said they were going to 'deal with' Madeleine."

Calvin said dryly.

However, Isaac didn't have any mood swings after hearing this sentence.

"Oh... that sounds scary, but I really don't care about that."

Isaac suddenly reached out and snatched away Calvin's cigarette. He pressed down on the window and threw the gadget that was burning with orange sparks directly out of the window.

"Hey, calm down, dude."

"Then can you do something to calm me down?! Fuck you are still in the mood to care about that shit-spitting bitch at this time? Did you forget your bounty at the Advent party?! Or are you actually I wish I could go back to that goddamn place and be that fucking angel?!"

"Damn it, Isaac, when Isa came to me she said her situation was serious, and from what I heard, the mentors and pastors there were raping the women..."

"To shut up."

"Isaac..."

"I told you to shut up."

Isaac's voice suddenly rose, and he stared at Calvin with a somewhat bewildered look.

He looked more angry and tired than ever.

"Calvin, I want to protect you." He said hoarsely, "I know that many people in this world are suffering, many people are being hurt, and if I have spare power, I will help them, but I can give my life to protect There's only you - all because you're my fucking brother! You're in danger, I can't take care of everyone, I'm not superman and I'm not superpowers I'm just a fucking father The policeman who didn't catch up with the funeral - I fucking want to do what he told me to do! And you're trying to burden me like hell, you're fucking trying to kill-"

"Isaac, I—"

"Get off."

Isaac unlocked the car, and he gave Calvin a push.

Calvin was finally kicked out of the car by him.

"If you want to be the savior so much, then go for it." Through the car window, Isaac yelled at him angrily, "I quit. Calvin, I give up, I can't protect you It's just not my job to reach out to the Adventists at the same time. I can't do that, really, Calvin, I give up."

Calvin stood there pale.

He didn't say a word, he could only stand blankly beside the unfamiliar street, watching Isaac drive away in his car.

He felt a little sad, but he didn't know whether it was for Isaac or for himself who was so embarrassed.

He walked numbly on the street for a certain distance, maybe it took ten minutes, or a longer period of time.And when he slowly calmed down, he was a little surprised to find that the buildings in front of him seemed familiar.

Oh, yes, it should look familiar to him—he thought, gazing at those elaborate plant hedges and the beautiful houses behind them.

He came here today, oh no, yesterday afternoon.

As if controlled by some mysterious force, he involuntarily turned a corner at the corner of the street, and then stopped in front of a small brick-red two-story building.

This is... Virgil's apartment.

And now, in the bedroom window on the second floor of this apartment, there are lights on.

Oh he told me he doesn't live here now - a sentence flashed through Calvin's mind, and he frowned, and stood downstairs at Virgili's for a few minutes.

His phone was in his trouser pocket, next to his injured finger.An impulse squirmed in Calvin's fingertips. He always felt that he would take out his mobile phone in the next second and make a call to the son-in-law who was obviously obsessed with him.But he quickly resisted the urge.He shouldn't get too close to that guy, between him and him...

It doesn't matter.That's right, it doesn't matter.

Calvin frowned tightly. When he realized that he was thinking about that weird multiple personality patient, he quickly turned around and was about to leave this damn high-end villa complex.But just at this moment, a figure appeared in the window soaked in warm light. He seemed to lean against the window inadvertently, and inadvertently met Calvin's eyes downstairs.

"Damn-"

The moment he met those mint green eyes, Calvin couldn't help murmuring.