Chapter 11. How Are You Feeling?

Clint looked confused.

Selene smiled. “Long story. As you know, I only had my father to depend on when growing up. I was still very young when my mother abandoned us. She left me a big box of chocolate and told me that she would return it when I finished eating it. I was so hungry that I finished the big box that afternoon.”

She paused for a few moments, then continued with an ironic smile. “But my mom did not come back as she had promised. Since then, I feel disgusted when I eat chocolate.”

In fact, she did not have a good memory, and all things about her childhood were almost a blur. The memory about the chocolate, however, still persisted in her mind.

On the day that her mom took her to meet a new man who was her new boyfriend, her mom gave her a box of chocolate.

She asked her mom. “Mom, when will you be back?”

“When you finish eating the chocolate.”

Then she saw her mom driving away with the man she did not know. She kept eating