Chapter 127

Getting me in the front door completely changes my entire demeanor. I revert to scared and wide-eyed, cowering behind him, grabbing his upper arm with a death-like grip as he leads the way. I’ve no idea how Sylvana will react, seeing as she has been like my surrogate second mom, or maybe third, for years. Suddenly it’s too terrifying that she may not approve of this because I know she genuinely liked Natasha.

“I think you’re cutting off the blood supply, baby.” He nods at my hands, and I loosen them a little. Arrick peels one of them off and slides it into his hand as he pulls me towards the sound of chatter in the day room.

“Mamma… Where are you?” He yells into the echoing house, and both jump when a voice comes close by from the kitchen to the right instead.

“Right here waiting for you two to come in and stop arguing on the drive.” Sylvana is standing with a mixing bowl in her kitchen. A wooden spoon is furiously pounding some batter, eyeing us up with her usual