Chapter 165

Gavin's POV

The pleasures I'd derived ever since we started seemed to have summed up or accumulated for me at this point.

Just then my phone rang, and the bedside table on which it was placed was just a few inches away. The Supreme Council of Family Affairs, with the verified tick sign beside it, appeared on the screen. My pulse dropped, my appetite, everything washed away from me like the spell had been cast out. This moment made me want to believe what was said earlier about Emma using charms.

"What's that?" Emma's panicked voice rang through my ear. Another spell had taken over me, it was that of the council. I was in trouble, so I just pulled out, sprang up from the bed, and went to answer the call. These people aren't with hearts at all, especially with those they coined offenders.

"Who's that?" Emma rose and peered into the screen to see. As she saw the letters, her jaw dropped. "Why are these people calling you at this time of the evening? Did you ge