I sat down on the sofa in Dae’s office. There was space for someone else to sit down beside me, and just when I had started to think that my father and Silen would avoid the space, Silen decided that she was going to make things awkward and sit down beside me. I couldn’t keep myself from shrinking away from her and trying to put some distance between the two of us. I wasn’t sure whether or not she noticed what I was doing, but I told myself that it didn’t matter whether or not she noticed.
Because her presence here didn’t actually matter either. I failed to see why she was here, and more importantly, why my father continued to look at her to make sure that she was alright. It was almost like she was his child and not me. After claiming that I had been his main concern, and now, to him ba
