Chapter 31

3 weeks later

It's been a few weeks since our encounter with the unknown creature, and there have been sightings all over town but by the time anyone gets there to investigate, it's long gone and there is no trace of it even being there in the first place.

Turns out father has been seeing this crazy woman from the night of the winter ball, Maria, on and off for months. Started being in some sort of contact just after Pauline ran off, thought he was taking being on his own a bit too well. She keeps trying to mother me, I had a mother, a great, fantastic mother and if anyone is to take her place, fill her impossible shoes, well, that would be her sister, my aunt Kay, not some random floosy my father decides on next to warm his bed. She also keeps trying to be my friend, which I don't like or trust. It's why I don't get attached or close to father's lady friends, because once I do they are gone and or they are just faking it to score brownie points with him. The whole packhouse is gett