The Woman From Hell

After we were done handling matters with the company, Theo and I went to Petra and Grayson's place in preparation to bring the children back. The two elder adults looked very happy, likely because I had not visited with Theo for a long time.

"Since you two are here, have dinner before you go. It's not every day that you two visit." Petra grabbed my hand with a look of expectation.

I looked into her eyes and could not bring myself to refuse her. I turned to look at Theo. "Why don't we eat before we go?"

"Sure," Theo blurted out.

I did not expect him to agree so cheerfully. Theo's impression of Petra and Grayson had not been very good ever since Petra treated me poorly after wrongly recognizing me as her daughter. Theo had been holding onto that despite that a long time has passed and so did not come around often.

Hearing him agree, Petra immediately asked the maid to prepare dinner before dragging us to the living room to have a chat.

It had been a long time since they sat down together as a family and it felt warm. It also filled the cold villa with comfort.

Time always flies whenever we chatted over meals.

Before we knew it, it was already dark.

The children were sleeping soundly while Theo carefully carried them into the car.

"Mom, Dad, we'll be going home now. We'll come to visit you two another day," I turned to Petra and Grayson and said.

Petra could not help nodding. "You must."

standing next to her, not being good with words, I could still see the reluctance in

"Yes, I will."

mirror, I saw Petra and Grayson standing at the door for

help the pang of sadness that made

I felt the tears filling my eyes

at me. When he caught a glimpse of my red eyes, he quickly pulled over and caressed my head. "What's wrong?" he asked

en

my head. "I'm okay. It

as we have time,

Theo, I wiped my tears. "Can you face

is no hurdle that cannot be passed. After going

have changed

"That's good then. You said it yourself,

was wearing an affectionate smile on his face before he left a

Suddenly remembering the text

I received at

it up to

a message before

tell me and asked me to meet