118. On one condition

Erica

Dinner was uncomfortable to say the least, especially because of Ephraim. For some reason he wasn’t a fan of me tonight. Until now, he’d always tried to indulge me in a conversation while we have breakfast or dinner to not make me feel left out, but tonight he was just giving me side glances and he even let loose a few barbed words that put me on edge. Especially when he called me in not so many words a bad distraction.

It wasn’t until Antonio snapped at him that he stopped and I realised I wasn’t the only one aware of Ephraim’s odd behaviour. “You have to stop going after her with veiled insults or just come out with whatever stick you’ve lodged up there, Ephraim.”

Ephraim stared up at Antonio then he glanced at me and since I saw him in the corridor outside the bedroom, for the first time I glimpsed the man that was compassionate to me not the arsehole he had become out of the blue.

But after how Antonio had treated me in the bathroom, I didn’t need him to come for my aid. I s