Chapter 72

Atasha's POV

Upon entering my room I immediately shut the door close and sat at the edge of my bed.

I felt warm tears cascading down my face so I immediately wiped it.

"Mom," after a while I heard Alisa's voice calling my name so I looked at myself in the mirror and fixed my face before walking towards the door and facing my daughter.

Upon opening the door I saw my daughter looking at me intently as if she saw something wrong on my face so I smiled at her and knelt on the floor so our face would level.

"I can't sleep. Asher told me that we are old for stories but I still want to hear your stories, Mom," she sweetly uttered which made me smile.

"Sure let's go," I said then stood up and held Alisa's hand.

We walked towards her room and when I stepped inside I saw Asher lying on Alisa's bed with his arm folded on his chest.

"I thought you are big enough for stories?" I teasingly asked.

"I just said those to get away from Mr. Sawyer, Mom," he said refusing to address Conrad as his Dad.

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