Ava turned her head to look at her brother. Stephen was quiet. His friends looked stunned by his reaction.
The three of his friends stood up from the couches they had just sat on and asked,
"Are you for real?" Paul asked with disbelief.
"Stephen, you have changed after getting a family. We understand how eager you were to have one. But you are pushing your old friends," Cyrus uttered.
Ronald cast a glance at Ava, who was standing at the stairs. He turned his attention back to Stephen and said,
"It looks like you are too protective about your sister. But you forgot who had been protecting you all along. He is Ian Dawson, our friend who has never abandoned us and has always protected us, even when we were lost."
Stephen lowered his head after hearing Ronald. He was right. Ian was the o
