"You didn't." My eyes narrowed at her."I'm sorry." She ran to open the door, revealing a slightly older man with a head full of dark hair. He looked way younger in person. "Dad!" She hugged him before letting him in."I smell chicken fried rice. You cooked?" I didn't miss the tone of surprise in his voice. She walked hand-in-hand with him to the kitchen. He hadn't seen me yet. He was more focused on their conversation. When I finally came into view, he stopped in his tracks, as if he couldn't believe his eyes. "How..." My brows drew into confusion.I looked at Charlie with panic in my eyes. He had the same green eyes as us and now they were filled with fear mixed with shock?"My God! Evelyn."My eyes widened in surprise. He'd mistaken me for his dead wife."Charlie? Can you please explain what's going on here?"I looked back at Charlie who had a sheepish expression on her face. I threw the napkin on the kitchen counter and folded my arms across my chest, anger evident on my face

“This is insane. How is your place this big?”I looked around Thea’s house. The house she’d gotten in Naples had multiple rooms that she probably wouldn’t need but it was the aesthetics that blew me off. From outside, it looked just like a pristine-white mansion that covered over four thousand square feet but on getting inside, I couldn’t shut my mouth. It was like a splash of flavours. The arch ways had murals painted over them and some rooms had some kind of alt décor in some of them. You could get to a room and feel warm and you could get to another and feel hyped up enough to do some work because of the lively space.“Bro… I can’t even…” We’d just left her workspace from the tour and I could understand why her house was so huge. There was this really big room that could fit 20 of old room in it and there were fabrics upon fabrics strewn about with lots of machines I couldn’t even recognise.“Damn! How did you even manage our space? It seems like an ant compared to this.” I motione

“Let her go.” The deadly calm in Kol’s voice scared me but seemed to have no effect on the drunken idiot who still had a tight grip on my wrist.“Who the f*ck are you?”“The man who will leave you unrecognisable if you don’t let my woman go.”Maybe it was the alcohol or the cold in the air but this stranger didn’t let go. Kol approached him with an almost silent stride. I tried to pull my wrist from his hold and begged him to let me go.Kol was much taller and more built than he was. Even if he was an expert fighter, he was drunk. I was doing him a favour.“Shut up b*tch.” Kol didn’t spend a lot of time talking. He let his fist do that. The first punch sent him doubling over, causing him to drop my hand to hold his stomach. Kol approached him again but I pulled him back.“Hey, I’m okay. Let’s just go.” I knew it took everything for Kol to leave him just like that. The man had refused to do as he asked and further insulted me.“Kol?” I saw his eyes narrow at the figure on the floor and

I rushed to put on outside clothes as fast as I could.“How on earth is she at the police station?” I whispered to Kol who was seated behind the policeman with me.“I dunno. The man said a DUI?”“So, she spent the night there?”“There was a minor accident.” The policeman had heard us conversing at the back.“What?” My heart hadn’t calmed down and now, sweat licked my back.“She’s fine. She barely sustained any injury.”“She should be at the hospital. Not jail.” I yelled at the man, not minding the fact that he was a police officer.“I don’t like your tone young lady. Like I said, she’s fine. The doctor gave us the okay.” He scowled at me from the rear-view. I needed to see her.***“Oh My God, Thea.”She groaned and squinted her eyes to see who had disturbed her sleep. She looked so rough and tired but other than that, she seemed fine. No bruises or cuts I could see.“Tori?” She moved her hair away from her face and I saw the puffy and swollen face clearly. She had been crying.“It’s

“I won’t be too far behind ma’am.” I looked sourly at Dimitri who had refused to call me by my name. I nodded at him anyway and walked towards the burial site.Charlie waved from afar off and I waved back. Seeing her after not talking to her for so long had me smiling a little regardless of what the day represented.I had opted for a simple black gown and my hair was packed neatly behind my ears in a bun.“Hey.” Charlie attacked me with a hug. I’d missed her too. I looked around for David.“He’s not here. He never comes visiting.” My lips took a downturn. All the more reason to hate him.“It’s not like that. He just…” The closed-off expression on my face shut her up. At least she was here and she hadn’t even met her either.The sky had turned cloudy and rumbled loudly with thunder. Rain in March?Hardly had we paid our respects when David came, a thunder introducing him. I looked up at the sky with a scowl on my face. Dramatic much?Then, I looked at Charlie with a “I thought you said