Chapter 365. Dinner

Schwartz

“Mate, hey!’ The Boss looked around, his hand still holding his wife’s small wrist imprisoned in his large one.

“We have guests, Lucien,’ said his wife gently and the Boss‘s cold, pale eyes swept the length of the room to land on Maja. He raised a brow and grunted.

His wife went on, smiling reassuringly as she looked at Maja’s strained white face that contrasted vividly with her blazing red hair and blue eyes.

“That’s Maja, she’s going to be a teacher at Hollowford High and her children. Magnus and Madeline.’

The big man’s narrow gaze flickered across them but they rested longer than necessary on Magnus, who coloured slowly under the critical scrutiny. His eyes stabbed at Schwartz, and a message seemed to pass between the two men.

Maja felt her palms break out in a sweat and she turned to look at Magnus. What had they noticed about her son that she, as a mother, had not seen?

Schwartz was staring keenly at Magnus no