She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 1133:

“I once held you when you were a kid.”

“What?”

“When you were about the age in this picture.”

“What are you talking about?”

“That boy in the photo with you? That’s seven-year-old me.”

Freya froze, then snatched the photo from his hands. In the picture, a two-year-old version of herself stood beside a little boy she didn’t recognize.

She had no memory of being two. If not for this photo, she wouldn’t even know this moment had ever happened.

“This IS you?” she asked, pointing at the soft-featured, slightly bashful boy in the picture.

Ellis pressed his lips together. “Yeah.”

Freya suddenly

remember being that young, but Anita, her mother, had

then, her mother and her aunt had taken a trip to the countryside. While her aunt pitched the tent, Anita kept

had shown up with their son. Anita had described the boy as seven or eight, acting

that the boy

two photos from that day too,” Ellis said, calm and certain, as he opened his own album and pulled

his hand. One was identical to

showed her aunt, her mom, Ellis’s parents—and Ellis himself—all smiling

shimmered with

he found her mom so familiar when he reviewed Freya’s file at the base. They’d met once, a

begins with

seeing that

his parents had worried that he might grow up too introverted from spending so much time indoors, so they’d made it a point to take him out

parents arrived, they set up a tent right beside Freya’s. The two

the adults chatted away, Ellis kept her company, playing with her