Summer
It wasn’t because he told me to sit down but I felt like my legs would give up on me any second if I remained standing so I sat down on the same chair that I had occupied so many times in the past while playing chess with him. But this time there wasn’t a chessboard between us but a file that carried all the secrets I didn’t know. That now I wished didn’t exist. Because the look in his blue orbs told me that whatever was inside it, I won’t like it.
He took his own seat opposite me and nudged the file toward me. I looked up at him, and suppressed the wince when I saw the cold exterior that he once again cloaked himself in. There was not even a hint of the man who had taken care of me in the last few days. “Open it.”
My fingers felt boneless as I gripped the file. Even as I prepare
