Chapter 21

My Mother

I took a seat in my office chair and looked up at Kenneth, he was staring at me with worry.

“Are you sure you can work today?” He questioned as I leaned back in my chair. I felt a headache start to rise and my eyes fell shut.

“Don’t worry I will manage,” I replied. I realized that I had never got a chance to see this humble and caring side of Kenneth.

A slow smile crept onto my face. “I didn’t know you had this soft side,” I joked.

I wondered whether he was smiling at my failed attempt to cr*ck a joke. My eyes were firmly closed, I wasn’t ready to open them to the light.

“You didn’t tell me why you were crying,” Kenneth questioned and I didn’t answer, he had asked a while ago and still I didn’t answer.

I acted like I didn’t hear anything and mostly because I wasn’t in the mood to talk about it. What am I to say?

I used to talk so highly of Gale, like he was the prince of all men now what I am to say. That my prince ch