Chapter 42

Riek's POV

I was wishing you would come to save me, I waited for you but didn't see you. Tala really tortured me."

"Arrghhh!" I gasp at how such a little boy like him should know the word 'torture.' It must be a very terrible experience he had. Bardulf's lips hang loose, his eyes pop out wide. He too is very surprised to hear this.

"How did she treat you?" He asks him.

"Who are you?" He asks Bardulf with his little voice, eyes staring at him. I brush his laps. Tears begin to stream from my eyes. I have really suffered a lot in this life. I don't want my little son to have any experience related to what I suffered. I'm glad Fridolf has come back to me, who knows what might have happened if he stayed longer than that. His curious eyes continue to stare at me and I know that he demands an answer to the question he asked.

"He's your new father!" I smile inside me to be saying this, indirectly calling a man I just met a husband, when we have not even gone