Quiet Before The Storm

Jack wanted Charlotte.

"There's something special about her." Said Cassius "Carl, do you have an idea why they want her that bad?"

Carl hesitated then spoke the truth: "Lottie is not my sister. She is a girl my family's protecting…" Carl talked for almost ten minutes, and when he was done, Cassius was looking at him in astonishment. Claude bit his lower lip and announced: "they shall never get the kid. Cassius, exactly at seven o'clock, gave them a refusal. We shall start the purification before."

"Sir," asked Cassius"May I accompany you? I know many of their faces, I can be a great help!.."

"What are you saying kid!" Interrupted Cassius Flora opened her lips, hesitating to talk. She wanted to say anything to get over this very uncomfortable situation . But lying was fruitless, even fatale, when truth seemed impossible to tell.

While hesitating, Claude kept shoving her with his eyes. Then he looked at her swollen red lips and felt something strange down his abdomen. He wanted to