"Ethan tells me you're a very understanding girl. So, you must also want him to return to his own family, right?"
That day, Zoe Rhodes didn't tell Ethan Rhodes that she had already met his biological father.
For the next few days, she was distracted in class. Her teacher noticed she wasn't herself and called her guardian.
She didn't really have any guardians to speak of. The one who showed up was, of course, Ethan Rhodes.
She remembered it clearly. Ethan Rhodes had asked her if she was just tired from studying too much lately.
She didn't say anything.
She didn't respond to anything he said after that.
The teacher pulled him aside to talk privately. She didn't know what they discussed. On the way home, Ethan Rhodes was unusually silent.
For the next few days, Ethan Rhodes picked her up and dropped her off from school without fail.
The company was in its growth phase, and his work was especially busy during that period.
