Staying Away From Him

SOON as Zoe arrived in front of their apartment. She frowned when she saw men in suits.

‘What are they doing here?’ she thought.

She was confused, and suddenly she felt her heart thump fast as she had a terrible hunch about it. She walked towards the door, and her eyes widened when she saw Helios’s father sitting on their old couch while her mother sat across from him.

“Mom…” she mumbled and drew the old man’s attention.

She saw how a smirk formed on Don Lincoln’s lips. “It was nice to see you, Zoe Levine,” he said, wearing his cold and stern voice. If Helios is scary, his father is more terrifying. As she can at least talk back to Helios but to the old man in front of her, she feels intimidated, and with one wrong word, she thinks she’ll be doomed.

“Sit down, Zoe and let us talk,” he said, making Zoe follow like a robot and sit beside her mother.

“What do you really want, Don Lincoln?” It was her mother.

The old man leaned backward as he rested his arms on the armrest of the old couc