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AR'S
lip the eggs in the pan
ight and I'm pretty sure I ha
ng the eggs on a plate. I proceed to make p
e orange juice but then I disc
m sure my fruit has been blended enough, I turn off the switch and, strain i
oth hands supporting his chin as he watched his favor
come and hav
a small table in front of him sinc
gnores me completely as he
ost g
him with our neighbor and then proceed to take my frui
ray to get more customers just so I
and have yo
a and plate of toast
juice I had pour
es me ye
I reach for the remot
his head in my direction probably to see who switc
before him and he pouts knowing he isn't getti
ood,
mum
y, giving me th
man. Mummy is
his mouth as he takes a sip before bi
g at the corners of my lips. S
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so much,
I hand over Sean's bag con
p thanking me. I love having Sean ar
ho has already made himself comfor
wing he's i
in her early fifties, with
oved into this neighborhood three years ago when I could no longer take the r
had taken it upon her to look after Sean a
on while I was away? My son needed my attention t
d clothe him if I
ck before y
sure
time you wan
d look u
dramatically only for a second before
laugh exiting the
ve you a better life. A
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its in the huge basket I'd be taking out to
y from the basket as
just some default message
y heart drops instantly as dre
t me
ough to send my entire day spir
p the
f a b
lls me when he needs m
s he eve
rich businessmen of their money, he
eir money is a good thing but
according to his orders, by the way, I
ested before doesn't mean I'm saf
wants you arrested, he'd do
in such a web. If this happens then
ing. He can go
s me for another
what he's capable of. I know he won't hesitate
I have no choice but to succumb to his tw
ve always been trapped eve
*
e my way into the cr
the CCTV camera he's installed in
come
soon I enter the office too luxurious to
hind me, bending my head low as I f
ke he w
it when you look
sted way of thinking
faring my b
swirling around in his seat with that nasty signature smirk of
ow you're doing, you do not answ
. Words" h
ring we
ear him noddin
o the chase then. I cal
eason he called me here
gs. Important things mostly and m
inis
commit the grave mistake of snapping
uh
his eyes
raid this place in a few hours or less. Someone snitched on us. We need to take t
place? How did he even manage to make me a passport an
y? We? As in you an
e had sprung off his seat and crashed into me, pinning me against the wall with a dagg
First, you dare look me in the eye a
dangerously
told me otherwise One move, one wrong move, and
est spies but I'm not
.. I'm tru
aware of the dagger p
and get
ur
quietly I almo
long? I have already made arrangements
y back to
in some orphanage. I'm his mother and until I'm alive, my son
... There was a long stretch of silenc
he boss even think of wanting to send my three-year-old son to an
oes wher
u see
question snaps me
im holding up a bea
int m
ry lovely a
nically, ope
a scream escapes from my throat at
lled with bloo
. In the pool of
n fi
uman f
ng the urge to gag and vomit at
retty little boy he is, or the next fingers to occ