Chapter Hundred and Thirty-seven

NIA'S POV

The words left his mouth and I froze. Why the hell was he telling me that? Why was he making my life hard with this thing he was saying? I mean I was going around in my head, being all Vin Diesel about this. I was going to be okay, I was so sure that I was going to be, and yet here we sat, Nice, just nice.

The silence was alarming, for me and possibly for him too. With none of us saying anything, everywhere looked and seemed somehow. Dimmed. Okay. This was blowback from my plan, I could handle it. For all I cared, things did not go so well with Gloria and him and he thought that perhaps he could come save face with me. No mister. Thinking about him and Gloria had me fuming again, that nicely nice stuff now thrown at the window. I turned to face him, this time it was my eyes that flashed. Angry and confused. What did he want from me? What did his daughter want from me?

"What is it you want from me, Silas? You seem to be confused about what you want. You have been going over d