Chapter 30

“Ann, what were you thinking?”

I sit in a room right in front of both Phoenix and Callisto. Our disguises have been removed, and the two boys and Vivian are in a different room. A doctor has been called to check up on Matthew’s illness… and so Phoenix and Callisto has taken this time to scold me.

“I didn’t even notice you brought your wallet with you, what the heck, Ann!”

I bring my head down in shame. “... I wasn’t exactly thinking very deeply.” I answer because in hindsight, I really wasn’t thinking clearly.

I was just desperate to take Vivian and the boys away from that situation that I wasn’t thinking very hard on what might have happened to me.

If Callisto hadn’t stopped that man from reaching out to me… Who knows what would have happened?

“I brought the wallet just in case. I knew money was a problem, and I thought if things could be solved with money, then it would have been fine.”