21

Cressida

It was lunch time now and Savaş kept disappearing and coming back with food trays here and there until he finally settled in front of me on the table, both of us were eating in silence until… I decided to ask a question.

"What was that place we were in? A private beach?" I knew that he didn't exactly have to answer this question but I still hoped as I went back to eating.

"An Island that belonged to my mother, no one would suspect it." His mother. I never asked him about her, the only thing I knew was that my mother and his passed out around the same time which I wouldn't consider as coincidence anymore.

"Tell me about your mother." I paused when he froze and tensed for a second so I quickly tried to make the situation right.

"If you want to tell me about her of course, you don't have to just because I asked you to–" I was rambling anything that came to my mind by now but cut myself off and looked down at my plate as I started eating again, hoping that he would forget that