Chapter 48: Stroll

*Damon*

Bowing, Zeeb turned, ready to take his leave.

Right before he could do that, I stopped him and said clearly. “Let them stay in the unimportant part; those rooms that we don't even consider.”

Zeeb glanced at me looking dumbfounded. He wanted to say something, but a shape glare from me shushed him up.

I knew he wanted to return about my unfairness, so I had to quickly stop that.

With unwillingness, he finally left my sight, over to Alpha Ryker.

Only I remained in the living room. While reading the news, my mind drifted back to the little girl of last night.

I wondered if she's still asleep. She should be, right?

From the little I knew of her, she seems to like sleeping a lot.

Due to my unsettled mind, I dropped my newspaper on the table, and stood up from the chair.

Without much thinking I started walking upstairs, I didn't stop walking, until I headed to the little girl's room.

With gentleness, I knocked on her room door, with the thought that she would have woken up alread