Chapter 2285

The driver leaned back slightly in his seat, still shaken, his hand pressed against his chest.

Something about all of this didn’t sit right with him.

Madam rushing to the airport out of nowhere.
The child resisting like his life depended on it.
And now… this near accident.

It didn’t feel like a normal trip.

Miranda, on the other hand, was still holding Felix tightly, her hands trembling just enough to betray her composure.

“Alright,” she said at last, her voice softer now, almost coaxing. “We’re not going. We’ll go back.”

Felix froze for a second, like he didn’t quite believe it.

“…Really?”

“Yes.” Miranda forced a small smile. “We’ll go back.”

Only then did Felix finally relax, though his grip on her clothes didn’t loosen.

“Turn the car around,” Miranda said to the driver.

“Y-Yes, madam.”

The car slowly pulled away from the roadside, merging back into traffic.

Inside, the tension didn’t disappear—it just changed shape.

Felix leaned against the seat, eyes still red, but quieter now.

Miranda stared ahead, her thoughts spiraling again.

She had backed down.

Not because she wanted to—

But because she had no choice.

Felix was her last leverage. If something really happened to him, everything she had planned would collapse.

And worse…

She couldn’t risk him saying something reckless like that in front of the wrong people.

Her fingers tightened slightly.

She needed another plan.

A safer one.

One that didn’t rely on force.

As the car moved farther away from the airport road, Miranda’s gaze darkened.

Whoever exposed that photograph…

Whoever pushed her into this position…

She wasn’t letting it go.

Not like this.

Beside her, Felix stared out the window, quiet—but something had changed in his expression too.

For the first time, he realized something clearly—

His mother wasn’t just strict.

She was hiding something.

And whatever it was…

It was serious enough to make her afraid.