Chapter24

#Chapter24

Her angry brown eyes scanning the room until they land on the child in my arms.

/"What are you doing with...that thing?/" She hisses, referring to Victoria

Victoria, noticing this, hides her face in my chest.

I frown at this.

/"Caring for her,/" I retort

I wrap my arms tighter around the child's body when I feel her body shake against mine, as if she were crying.

/"It is this thing where you take care of someone because you genuinely care about them,/" I explain to her

My eyes trail down her angered face before meeting her eyes again.

/"But I would not expect you to know anything about that/" I say as I stand up from father's leather couch

I carefully balance the sobbing child on my hip when I feel her begin to slip.

/"We are not keeping her here, the press-/" the woman begins to say

Ugh!

Why is everything always about the press?!

/"The press can suck it for all I care,/" I say