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Maya Brooks stopped talking to Aria, turned her head to look at him, then glanced at the small suitcase, and asked in a strange tone, "Is there something else? This is the only one left. There's no more."

Finn Alvarez forced a smile: "...It's okay."

He glanced at the sun, cocked his eyebrows in a lazy way, "Hurry up and get in the car. The UV rays are so strong. Don't get tanned."

"Thanks." Maya Brooks giggled and patted his shoulder, then walked to the back of the SUV in a pair of white sneakers.

Finn Alvarez paused for a few seconds, pushed the suitcase to the back, arranged the luggage and backpacks properly, and then closed the trunk.

He leaned against the side, took out a cigarette case, bit a cigarette between his teeth, and lit it. Without getting in the car immediately, he said to Ryder.

"I'm going to buy two bottles of water."

"Get a pack of cigarettes too." Ryder said lazily, "Buy Evian water, cold ones."

"What a picky habit." Finn Alvarez rolled his eyes. There was a small convenience store right at the school gate. "Anything else? Say it all at once."

"Nothing else."

Ryder didn't like warm mineral water. He also had to buy the expensive kind because the cheap ones had a taste, and so did the room - temperature ones.

So the car was clean, with nothing in it. Everything was bought right before they set off.

Because of the falling - out with his family, he rarely went back there during holidays.

If he didn't go back, Finn Alvarez definitely wouldn't either. As a result, before, it was always Maya Brooks who bought high - speed rail tickets and went back with her classmates.

The drive back took more than four hours.

It wasn't close, and driving was a test of the cervical spine.

Finn Alvarez went to buy things. Maya Brooks walked over, tapped the open car window with her fingers, squinted her eyes, and said to Ryder bluntly, "Get out. You go sit in the front."

"No."

"What are you, a grown man, doing squeezing in the back with a little girl?"

"Mind your own business?" Ryder lazily lifted his eyelids and gave her a sidelong glance. "I bought this car with my money. I can sit wherever I want."

Maya Brooks: "..."

"Aren't you driving?"

Ryder bit on the candy and replied casually, "Let Finn Alvarez drive."

Maya Brooks looked at him, as if realizing something. Her eyes were sharp. "Ryder, you're not up to something bad, are you?"

Aria buried her head in her phone, sitting quietly on the side, being very sensible and not saying a word.

She always felt that Maya Brooks seemed to have noticed something these days. Just like the time she gave Ryder an ice - cream during the evening training and was pulled back and interrogated for a long time when she got back.

She had even been hinted and warned several times, more or less directly, that Ryder wasn't a good guy.

Aria had a guilty conscience. She thought those words weren't just casual remarks but were meant to remind her.

She was extremely nervous.

Ninety - nine out of a hundred friends said he wasn't a good match.

But her heartbeat told her that he was.

Aria was stubborn.

Unless she gave up on her own, no one could stop her.

"Are you going or not?" Maya Brooks crossed her arms and looked at Ryder's outrageously good - looking face. She thought it was really dangerous. With this face, who could resist being attracted to him?

She squinted and said, "If you don't go sit in the front, I'll tell your brother you're going back this National Day holiday."

Ryder: "..."

He gave her a warning look and said in a deep voice, "Maya Brooks."

"Here." Maya Brooks smiled sweetly. "Are you going? I want to catch up with my little sister. What are you, a guy, getting in the way for?"

...

Finn Alvarez came back carrying a box of Evian water. He found that Ryder had moved to the passenger seat. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at the back, then took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to Ryder.

Ryder tossed him the car keys.

Finn Alvarez grinned.

Well, it must be that in the few minutes he was gone, the little one had annoyed the big one again.

He was sulking.

He was happy to watch the show but didn't dare to laugh out loud. He grabbed the keys and twirled them around twice. "I'm driving?"

Ryder replied with a blank - faced "hmm".

After that, he stopped talking, leaned his head back against the passenger seat, closed his eyes, and gave off an aura of "don't come near me".

The two girls in the back were sitting close together, their heads almost touching, whispering and occasionally letting out soft laughter.

The person pretending to be asleep turned his head to the side, his handsome face facing the side - view mirror outside the car. It was hard to tell if it was by accident or on purpose.

In the small mirror, the gentle and charming smiling face of the girl in the back was reflected.

Finn Alvarez sneered again.

What's the point of pretending? Your annoyance is almost written all over your face. Why don't you spit out the lollipop stick in your mouth!

You can't even be bothered to put on a full act. So perfunctory.

Finn Alvarez took a sip of water, reminded the two girls in the back to fasten their seat - belts, hooked the car keys, and stepped on the gas to start the journey.

The car windows were open, and the scenery on both sides slowly receded. The cool breeze blew away the heat.

Autumn had arrived.

Like Ryder, Finn Alvarez had also gotten his driver's license right after turning eighteen. At that time, they were still in senior year and had been taken in several times for driving without a license.

Every time, it was Ryder Bro who was called to pick him up.

Ryder Bro had a gentle and polite personality. He never got angry when picking someone up. After asking about the situation, he would just give a few words of advice and let it go.

But it was strange that in the Kensington family, if there was anyone who could still control Ryder now, it was probably only Ryder Bro.

Ryder's growth wasn't smooth sailing.

He was rebellious, climbing up against the current, living a self - centered life, not taking anyone seriously. When he caused trouble, he would fight until he overpowered others. And Finn Alvarez was an unwanted little kid.

In families like theirs, there was bound to be some dirty business.

Finn Alvarez's mother died early in childbirth.

His scumbag father, a so - called "Phoenix man", was heartless. Just a few months after his wife died, he brought his mistress into the house. Counting the days, the illegitimate son was even a year older than Finn Alvarez.

That bastard was both stupid and vicious.

As the saying goes, where there's a stepmother, there's a stepfather. Besides, his biological father was just a figurehead and not affectionate at all.

This unwanted child was as weak as a monkey when he was young, being bullied and often covered in bruises.

The day Ryder met him, he was being blocked in an alley and beaten up by the scumbag illegitimate son of his family with a group of people.

Finn Alvarez wasn't one to lie down and be bullied. He would fight back whenever he got the chance. But this time, he had really gotten into trouble. The other side came prepared.

The scumbag illegitimate son brought a lot of people and, because of his own ugliness, specifically told them to hit Finn Alvarez in the face.

This was the so - called "ugly and resentful of the world".

Ryder had lost several consecutive games of online games that day. When he came out of the Internet café and passed by, he was inexplicably blocked by them. The illegitimate son mistook him for a rescuer.

What was even more annoying was that he was better - looking than Finn Alvarez.

The illegitimate son got angry all of a sudden.

Before Ryder could say anything, he was cursed out.

Ryder was so arrogant. When had he ever been cursed like this? He was really spoiling you. With a cold face, he single - handedly taught the illegitimate son and his lackeys a lesson.

After that, he contained his hostility, straightened his collar, and regained his gentle and elegant noble - son look. Without changing his expression, he called 110.

He coldly reported the address and then hung up.

Before leaving, he kicked the half - dead scumbag twice and said with a half - smile, "Ugly bastard, are you calling your daddy?"

He managed to piss off the illegitimate son, who was already in a lot of pain from the beating, until he passed out.

At this moment, Finn Alvarez seemed to have seen the light of Ultraman.