"If there's any need for me, Ivana Bennett... just say the word!"
Ivana Bennett laughed lazily as he stretched out his fist towards Lucas Walker.
Although the youth who was not yet twenty had a lazy smile on his face, his eyes were full of a determination that far exceeded his age.
Members of the Gardener Family never admitted anything easily.
Once they admitted something, it was as good as gold.
Raising his own right fist, Lucas Walker solemnly connected it with Ivana Bennett's.
"I am with you."
They were Ivana's family, her most cherished people, and therefore, the people he cared about.
Retracting his fist, Ivana Bennett burst out into a mischievous smile.
"Say, Lucas Walker, are you going to call me 'brother' from now on?"
Lucas Walker shrugged his shoulders, stuck his hands into his pockets and coolly replied with two words, "In your dreams!"
He could risk his life for Ivana, but to call a young man five years his junior 'brother', that was a pipe dream.
