CHAPTER 256: MARRIAGE ALLIANCE

When Cameron asked Ryan, he was pleased to hear him table a request. After his father had died, even though he talked to him among others, he couldn't ask him for anything. That alone bothered Ryan; he wanted to be there as a father and wondered how it would be possible if the kid had never asked him for anything. He always hoped and prayed that he would, at some point, make his wants known so he could make them readily available. Cameron was such a lovely child, and Ryan was fond of him. Before his brother died, Ryan had the best sibling relationship with his brother, too, so he wouldn't allow anyone else to take charge of the boy. Ryan had to endure hate speeches and comments about him being a single father who abandoned the woman who gave him a child. These comments about him spread so widely that people took them to be accurate, and even now, at events, people still have their way of pointing to him as a single father. But he didn't care. He had legally adopted his brother's so