l
he sound of Sophie's scream tore through
s, tangled in her sheets, whispering t
nd rocked her gently. "Shh.
y until her breathing steadied, the
r hair even as my own pulse refused to calm because
I brought in my mother's herbal tea. She looked so
she murmured, p
have wo
settle
mum,
Sophie se
didn't want to worry
s Keller told me
did
t you to grant t
mum
know you don't want
nce. "What do yo
ough, so I quickly p
ther would tell you
med like Mrs Keller hadn't lost her t
ummy." She said with
Keller is an i
ith her food but for some reas
lur as I was still unsettled about
o anxious to t
om the windows. I had spent all morning in my r
come in. I had gone down to welcome him and he looked pl
Mrs Keller's voice
." I cal
s to see you
e down
here he tells me what my
smoke, papers littered around the
gestured towards th
ike a drink?
th
tered across the desk. Guess he saw m
d to speak
tight. "Yeah I was
my self for whatever bomb
while we've been in contact. But not
w wh
s cold. "The compan
d. "What do you
company has gone bankrupt. We'
you never
ht I had it under control, and moreover
him a
w." He sa
do you
ed to keep us afloat.
oing to like this
ce was loude
business and not my life, he r
beneath me. "You
ly," he snapped. "And if this is
ou're selling me o
ying to save this family Elena. Don't
. So I went outside to the gardens, dark clouds had appeared in the sky and the air
d anything about the company going down? How wo
t realized it had already started to rain. But still, I sa
um
ntrance, I quickly swipe my tears which wa
oming
e door when I stepped in, she l
ou in the r
st having som
'll catc
who wants a hot
excitedl
stress of the day disappearing into th
esser, the silk and lace spilling over my hands. It
could object. He wants to package me up like a gift
mach t
ll the bargains and debt that had nothing to do with me. And now Liam
ress tighter, my
ke this it had cost me so much, m
this
d survive what i
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