chapter 185

She didn't expect to spend the night in this man's house and it hadn't been easy. She had spent the whole night reassuring Vega when she too was afraid. This man was going to find out that this little girl was not his niece and then he could not forgive the lie. She imagined that she should have thought about that before venturing into this sort of thing by inventing a story according to which the little one was her niece. The lie was going to catch up with her like the joke like that. The room remained closed and it was thanks to the small window of the room she was in that she could see that it was already daylight outside.

“I’m hungry,” Vega told him.