Chapter 45

“What did you say?” Ray asked Lana through the phone with a composed voice but Lana knew this tone, he was completely baffled by what Lana just told him.

Lana let out a tired sigh as she glanced back to the car where River was waiting in the passenger seat. “I said, is it okay if I drove River to Winfield City? He has a family emergency and I’m only driving him there so no one gets suspicious about his injury.”

“What about Maddison? Luis? Can’t they drive him instead?” Ray asked, his tone getting increasingly anxious.

River and Lana made eye contact and he pointed at his wrist watch. Lana mouthed a sorry and rushed to the driver’s seat. She got into the car and replied to Ray.

“Well… long story short, River did not think his father was in serious condition since his mother often overexaggerates about that… his words not mine.” She muttered as she caught a glance of River’s frown. “But then he found out that his father is in serious condition and now he really