Kapitel 23: Breaching the contract

Valerie returned home but found no one. She frowned, where did they go? She called Ruby's phone and heard it ringing in her room. Valerie narrowed her eyes, anxiety slowly building up in her heart.

Where did Greg take her daughter? Hope she wasn't too quick to trust him? Hope he didn't do anything to Ruby?

Before she could start making calls, she saw the father and daughter from the floor-to-ceiling window, getting out of a taxi. She took a deep breath and chastised herself.

'Stupid! How could you think of something so horrible?!'

Well, she couldn't blame herself. She was ruthlessly betrayed and almost killed by the people she once called family, in the past, only because she trusted them. She won't let that repeat itself anymore; once beaten, twice shy.

Greg and Ruby's laughter drifted into the room before their silhouette passed through the door.