Chapter 42

"My father did what, Isla? He offered for you to be his stripper?" He asked and I remained speechless. I couldn't stare straight into his eyes. I am not sure what kind of relationship that it is that he has with his father but I think I saw how his heart breaks into tiny and million little pieces after I told him that.

I know that feeling. I once felt that. Maybe just like me. Nicholas looks up to his father so much that it feels like a betrayal to see a glimpse of what he is actually like.

I breathed deeply and stood still, confused whether I'd beg him to believe me but if I do, what's the point?

"You don't have to believe me, okay? I am currently helping your family make a fool out of Kairos. There is no need for you to buy this but what would I get from lying to you? For breaking your family apart?"

"You can't break us apart," he said with such conviction, sounding like a law or if not a curse that is making everyone in their family suffer.

Nicholas glanced at me once last time,