Chapter 81: "You want something, don't you?"

“Alora!”

I can barely keep the shrill scream from my voice.

“Aloraa!!!”

There’s something almost perfect about the air today and though I'm screaming my lungs out, I realize all this, just a few happy moments with these people, washes away the years of pain and trauma I've always been trying to keep under the surface. I scream again,

“Aloraa!!!”

This time she sticks her head out from one of the rooms with a disgruntled look on her face, like an annoyed cat. Her words are calm and slow as she responds, “Is there any reason why you want to shake the pillars of this manor with the sound of my name?”

I scoff and chuckle at the same time because if I could do that, I would have done it a long time ago, just not to these pillars and not to this house.

I go through the door and into the room she’s in and when she’s seated on the bed again, looking up at me confused and with a slight frown on her face, probably because I’m grinning so much, I say the first thing that comes to mind,

“You start