Chapter 121

Calista pov

Sleep was avoiding me like an enemy that night, the more I tried to press my eyes shut and shove them into the pillow the more I seemed annoyed with me and he ignored me as if I was a player that is hard to stay as far away from as possible.

At one point I give up trying to pursue sleep and I sat up on my bed causing my hands together and looking at one direction my room to another unfamiliar direction, it didn't take long for me to be thinking about that other room once again.

Why did he have to lie to me?

There was no need for him to do that. Instead, he could have given me a good explanation for why he had a children 's place when there was no child living with him in the first place. It wasn't something that I could just brush under the carpet as I may.

Any explanation that I tried to prop up in my own head was always something that made my insides twist like knots and my shoulders will immediately feel heavy with the burden that they were carrying on one side