Chapter 13

  A cough interrupted them. Eulysis motioned to Epharil to follow him. There he goes again, keeping his poise.

  “Want to keep this?” Epharil handed her the opened pack of cigarettes. She let out a smile of refusal, but she insisted.

  “Keep it.”

  She looked at them as they walked away from her. They seemed to be talking about something not to be shared with anyone. Before they turn, the woman look back at her and smile. That was the first she did that to her. She looked at the thing she gave her. She is really not into bad habits, and she really has no plans to keep it either. But, the note written on it made her keep it.

  “I will,” she muttered.

  The wind blows and the smell of smoke spread around her, but surprisingly, it didn’t smell suffocating. She looked up at the sky and closed her eyes.

  “I won’t let you take any of them. I will bring us all home.”

  “Six months and thirteen days,” she counted the days on the calendar.