Chapter 44

"You look scared of me" the woman smiled, her baleful gaze impossible to be mistaken, "But again, you always were. Let's keep the child outside this. You don't want her to hear what I'm about to tell you."

Tara watched the woman venomously, wondering how could the woman demand so boldly even after all these years.

The old woman had no name. They never trusted Tara with their names. She didn't know the name of the mission, or her trainers or of the organization. She was to address them as sir and madam, nothing more nothing less.

"Eugene" the woman called out, looking at Tara with a strange longing that made her uncomfortable. A woman appeared in her early twenties with a cheery smile, a smile that seemed designed to lure children, so fake that no one could mistake it for empathy.

"Give baby Ina to her. She'll take care of it"

Tara didn't want to know how she knew Inaya's name, she was aware that nothing could be kept from her madam, it never had.

"No"

The woman looked at her, reall