Chapter 33

Natalia:

I stared at my parents who sat in front of Blake and I.

They forbade my siblings from approaching the living room, not wanting them to know that their older sister was there. It killed me to see that they didn’t want them around me, but I wasn’t going to complain about it now. I was going to be patient and I was going to wait for how things went before saying a word.

“What are you doing here, Natalia?” Mum finally asked, breaking the awkward silence “you threw your harsh words the last time we saw one another, and you made sure to insult us as your family, what else do you want to say?”

“Why didn’t you tell me that you had to sacrifice yourself, a part of it at least, for my and mum’s sake?” I asked dad who kept his eyes on his lap. Blake wrapped his arm around me, pulling me to his chest as to comfort me, assuring me that he was there for me. He moved his hand up and down my arm, gently squeezing it as he silently begged me to thread my next words c