The Soldier's Unsurpassable Honor novel Chapter 130

Panic gripped Joan's chest and words were lodged in her throat. Fane had done everything for her. He had only agreed to this false marriage and to take Ivan's place in the military because he wanted her to receive proper medical treatment.

She did not know any of this when she was confined t o the sickbed. It was only after she was discharged from the hospital that the doctor handed her Fane's letter, and she found out about the entire situation.

Throughout these five years, she had been fearful, too. She feared that Fane would die on the battlefield.

Plenty of people also told her that her son was dead. H e would not have remained silent all these years otherwise.

She could only pray for her son as she waited for him t o come back.

At this moment, they heard the quiet whirr of an approaching electric scooter. Fane and Selena were o n the scooter, finally home. They parked the vehicle inside the garden.

"Fane, are you okay? I heard that you beat up the Drakes' bodyguards. Is it true?"

Joan immediately leaped forward and asked Fane, overwhelmed with worry.

"Oh, I did beat them up, but don’t you worry. Everything’s fine!"

Fane smiled as he spoke nonchalantly.

"See? See? He admitted it himself! How can he be fine after beating up the Drakes' bodyguards?"

"Yeah. You’ve done nothing but drag the Taylors down with you for the past five years, Fane. I suggest you leave. How can everything be fine after you provoked the Drake family?"

Xena shot Fane a disdainful look. "You're a grown man, and yet you don't know what you can and can’t d o. You even made Selena help you extort 300,000 from her mother. It’s ransom money, isn't it? Thank goodness, Aunt Fiona is smart enough to not have complied. Otherwise, it would've been gone for nothing!"

Fane could not help but flash a mirthless smile at Xena's condescending demeanor. "Now I get why Selena doesn't like you that much. You sure talk a lot for someone who's an outsider in this family. Why do you care so much although you're just Ben's girlfriend?”