She Knows

"Evangeline." She looked at him with such a tender but disappointed look that it broke his heart. He felt a strange void forming on her chest. For some reason, the Adult Eve was replaced by her young image when she was just four. But the look of disappointment was so similar that he felt his body going cold at once. 

He was going to disappoint her again. She walked toward him and it felt like each step was taking an eternity.

But she did not say a word. She held her dress, kneeled beside him, mimicking his posture.

"...." thick silence felt in the room. While Damien stared at her lost, Joseph's eyes glimmered as he realized what she was trying to do.

This irksome woman had raged him the moment he had met her. But now he had the opportunity to punish her. In church, they never punished a woman and a child. Their parents would bear their punishment instead. But this time..