DID YOU MISS ME?

A week after Halle’s and Martha’s talk which ended on quite an awkward note, Xavier returned from Italy.

Halle didn’t realize it at first.

She spent all morning in her room after breakfast, studying for her final exams and trying to wrap her head around how she had ended up in such a situation in the first place.

Right, firstly she had let a murderer into her home and then let him stay with her for three days, then she agreed to be the surrogate of the world’s most powerful family because of her desperation for money, now Halle was here, being told to be with a man she was attracted to.

Sure it didn’t seem complicated on the outside, it was actually such an easy decision, just be with him since he made her happy but doing that would also be going against the morals she had grown up with.

He was a killer.

A man whose actions were so cruel but he still did not see them as such.

What was worse was that Halle was running out of reasonable reasons why she shouldn’t accept Martha’s fa