Chapter 420 Guidance In Small Shoes

• The mansion’s corridors hummed with a strange quiet. Brandon had been home for only a week, but the air already felt different, strained, uncertain, as though every word spoken had to be measured.
• The octuplets noticed. They noticed everything.
• Jayden sat cross-legged on the carpet of the twins’ room, his siblings gathered around like a secret council. The glow of the nightlight painted their faces in amber, shadows flickering across their determined expressions.