SHE

When I return to the room, he is no longer pacing, he is sitting at the desk, his eyes full of relief as he beacons me to him. Hurriedly, my feet move in his direction, and he pulls me into his legs, plopping down, his face sinks between my neck and my face, my body shivers as our bodies touch.

“I missed you, where did you go?” he murmurs,

I swallow, unsure how to say that I went snooping around without coming off as creepy.

“Out.” I say when the silence stretched on for far too long.

He sighs, “I have heard people describe the property as beautiful, but all I see here is pain, I

don’t think I can ever see it as more.”

The urge to take this man as far away from this place is overwhelming, I wanted to protect

him, from the horrors of his childhood, from the horror that was his younger brother. Since

Greta told me what his brother had tried to do, I had become even more afraid for him, what was it like living with a monster and his son?

“You never told me you had a brother..” I start