Chapter 28. The News

Ayana’s POV

Something that is only known to this family and these walls alone. How, even, to begin with?

But then, if this is as intimate as I thought it was, how come that even Robby knows?

Furrows fill my face as I lean closer, banking all of my hearing abilities on what I have to say in response to my guests. “What does the world know about me?” I ask, fear beginning to creep in me in slow, savage bits, cutting through my walls.

The world didn’t know about me for years. It still should not know anything about me, and most especially, not what I am thinking. No! It better not be what I am thinking.

Robby takes quite a long, unnerving moment just staring at my oblivious self. His silence speaks volumes, and it is getting my demons all riled up. “Speak to me, Robby! What does the world know about me?” I ask in apprehension, my breathing taking a higher pitch, matching the tone of my words.

He better slap whatever he has on my face as soon a