Chapter Fifty Four

I and Thane lay side by side on the bed in a comfortable silence.

“I’m feeling very generous now. Ask me a question; you might get an answer,” he says, and I peck up. I had so many questions to ask, and he was finally giving me an opportunity. I might as well take it while it lasts.

“Why did you pick me?, you would have had others easily... What is your intention, and what are you going to gain from this?”

“So this was the first thing that came to your mind?. Ask any other question, but that,” he says. That wasn’t fair. But I quickly moved on, I didn’t expect an answer either.

“Your parents had been present at the time you were being...” I paused; I didn’t want to say the word punished again, so I moved on, hoping Thane got the clue: “Freya did nothing. I feel like there is something you haven’t told me, something between your parents, particularly your mother and you.”

Thane watched me silently. “That’s another question I can’t answer.”

“Were you planning to ever answer a question?”