Chapter 104

(ALEX]

“Do you have a family?” She asked, and I’d be lying if I said that the first feeling in me wasn’t suspicion.

But it didn’t look like she put any thought into it, just asked what was on the top of her head.

“I do,” replied.

“What? Really?” Her eyes widened. “I didn’t think you were a family guy.”

“I have a mom. A dad. A twin sister. Younger brother. An uncle and an aunt. The whole package, actually,”

“No way.” Her eyes bulged while she made her way to sit on the wooden steps leading to the garden, her feet still dipped into the grass as if it was something to touch. She wanted to touch grass. Who the f**k touches grass? “Your parents encouraged you to be a part of the…” she hesitated, her voice turning into a whisper, “Mafia?”

I rolled my eyes at how dramatic she was. “Mafia. You can say it.”

She raises her shoulders.

“And no,” I answer her, I don’t know why. “My father wanted to kill me when he found it, but I think a part of him always knew about my knack for destruction- right since I started a fire in my school,”

Now, her eyes looked like they would fall out of their sockets. “You started a fire in your school? How old were you? Sixteen?”

“Twelve,” I smile, reminiscing.

“Why even?”

“I wanted to go watch a football game.”

did

the month. Mom didn’t talk to

“Aww. Mama’s boy?”

I wasn’t going to tell her

“What happened then?”

picked up a

frowns. “If I had a family, I would never leave them. I would just

hovering over her back, I sit next to her, leaving a good few

found the social worker who put me in the system, and she told me I showed up outside an orphanage when I was just three days old.” Her voice turns smaller. “I think they gave me up because they didn’t want me, but I still missed them all my life, you know? Like there was this huge

tt

“No friends? No

every time I was shifted into a new foster home, I lost them. At

was a certain heaviness in her voice, and then there was the way she looked straight ahead, as if making a conscious effort to not look at me. As i. she was hiding

I push. “How did

me, a light scoff under her breath. “You really

“really do.” Tinsist.

There was no

anger, her grey eyes turning almost icy when they were set at me, her hair

thought I was the one getting to know you. Why do

live alone on my floor, except you now.

rooms on your floor if you’re the only one?” She retorts. “It

keep empty rooms, where do I make

flashing in them. “There

“Maybe,” I lie.

“Other girls?”

raise an

here anymore. Which means

she visibly shudders. I resist a smile.

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