Chapter eighty eight: Jumping to the wrong conclusion

DAMIEN POV

I felt lighter after she left. Shocking right? I didn’t expect her but her being here made me feel better.

I took out my phone and dialled my mother’s number.

“I can explain,” she said immediately she came on the phone. I guess she already knows why I am calling and thinks I am mad. I don’t blame her. I was livid but it turns out that it wasn’t all bad the few minutes we spent together.

I don’t think Kamaria and I have spent that amount of time with together without being at each other’s throat before. Being with her today felt different. We might have started on a wrong foot but it straightened out as the day progressed. Maybe because I didn’t see the pity in her eyes that the others give me.

“I am listening ma,” I said in a flat tone, not sounding mad, not sounding happy either. My neutral response confused and rendered her speechless.

“I am not mad mum,” I said into the phone when the silence lingered.

“You are not! Does that mean she didn’t come? That bitch! I kno