Chapter 58

Vanessa recoiled into herself at his stare. He was her parent, her support system, that had crashed and burned. They were close for two and half years when she was a toddler. If she hadn’t been privy to his kind, nurturing self, she wouldn’t long for it now.

Instead of shutting him up, she asserted the same politeness.

“I work here.”

“That's the best you can do?”, his snide was ugly.

“If you had taught me how to become a pathological liar, I could lie. But this is the truth. You forget, we have a debt to pay.”

Gregory drew back as if she had slapped him. He didn’t want to think of the debt, he was working his way to even more powerful creatures, way up in the food chain by whose mercy, the debt would’ve been wiped off entirely. No debt to begin with. Vanessa thought the debt was monetary. It was his fault for keeping things from her.

He himself was unaware of the nature or the extent of it but his instincts told him money stood no chance against the demands of repayment.

‘Noah us