Chapter 73: Like Father

Tessa

Another dinner was set, there was no sign of Blake and dad was not even talking about it and now to make it worse the butler was also a no show. It got me worried a little, as much as we were broken up his safety was still our responsibility since we were the only family he had. Everyone seemed to be having fun except me and it sucked really, I just wanted everything to be over so that I could see what the future held, With Gideon of course. It was hard to understand how all of a sudden the sight of him tickled my loins and when he spoke he held me joy engulfed my heart. Though not so superstitious, somehow I believed he had me under a spell, a magic spell to be exact. Or was it an illusion?

How come all that time I never felt anything for him? Destiny was something so fucked up sometimes, yes she might be a living breathing statue and we are the sculptors but sometimes it just gets so autonomous and makes choices for us...or we fail to make them and so does it. For i