Chapter 48

While still wondering about his mother's whereabouts, the jobs continued to murmur meaningless words, standing along the feet of the staircase. The girl pushed the blanket away and stood up, startling again by the lightning that shook the ground.

James saw his daughter approach with hesitant steps, and the rest of the tears that intended to run down his face dried up as if by magic. The man in his complete state of bitterness, looked away from the girl and stared at the ground for long seconds. He repressed a hiccup, making his whole body shudder. Then he raised his head and the impassive man's posture was back. He stuck one of his hands inside the pocket of his social pants, pulled something and handed it into Andrew's hands. Without saying anything at all, he walked through the door, closing it with a thud. Abby could not imagine, but that simple act of negligence committed by her father became the key that would later release the cruelty she was waiting for to torment her f