บท 176: Rising Suspicion

Melanie stared at Simon's green eyes, that looked slightly curious, and then her eyes went back to look at his arm. With her words hanging mid-air, she went to ask, "Earlier, when we were in the forest, there was a wound—"

Her words were interrupted when her mother appeared with a glass of orange juice in her hand, entering the living room, and she offered it to the red-headed boy. 

"Where did your father go, Mel?" asked her mother, and Melanie suddenly noticed the flicker in Simon's eyes, as if the look in there had changed and it seemed colder. 

Breaking her gaze from Simon, she turned to look at her mother and said, "He went to attend to Conner's father. He said he will be there to make sure that the creatures had not done something grave while inflicting the wound on him."