THAN

, a pleased smile crossing my face. I start

available for dinner today. I'l

. I'll come and

ried in a month tops. I'll come and pi

-handedness. Her tense figure could snap with how stiff she had becom

illed. I'll call you when I'm done." I dismissed her and with a huff, she le

started towards me. "My boy."

." I hugged he

me, a playful glint in her eyes

lled me in a hug ag

e caressed my cheek in a motherly gesture, something she had done since we had m

couch. "Me too. It's good to see

n't mind me. I just came

you did. It's wonder

our impact, but you even surprised me with this." She said, looking round the office. I followed her eyes, seeing what she was seeing.

commented, and her

s started watering again, and I dragged a tissue to her, which she

It's been

see me regarding your assignment and wanting to take extra curriculums so you co

al. This company had been our goal right from high school, but his parents hadn't supported the idea of both of us venturing into business with our little to no ex

e, but the fact that you weren't interested in talking with anybody, and you o

d thrive on their own, but being in the school we were had taught us we had only each other to rely on. It wa

You looked so collected even as we

especially something the university doesn't agree with or support." She mock shuddered, and I smiled, remembering her daughter. Margaret was one of the few people I could sa

aw. But that was after changing her major from journalism and initially from economi

she'll do, as she has stuck with it for almost a year now, or she might discover something else she wants to do. Y

he would have no choice but to marry me, and while marriage to her wouldn't necessarily be a terrible thing, I felt n

though; she almost insisted on coming with me." She mock shuddere

fell into a com

d impacted both my life and Ethan's, and to a large extent, we owed the success of the company to her. She had been one of the few people that had believed in u

er eyes. "I'm so sorry I keep on bringing him up. It's just..." She sniffed. "... I

"Yeah. He

d. It's such a pity, what happened. He was such a bright boy

de to take his own life? Right at the pinnacle of the success of his company. The day before the company's one-year anniversa

fort. "But it's okay. I just came to see for myself that you re

Hopefully, in a few years, I'll be able to see you at Margaret's we

t. I'm getting ma

hat's great news. I though

aste any time again. I'll invite you to the wedding, if we have one." I felt bad about lying to her, but the goal of t

u invite me to the wedding; I would love to see the woman t

ELLE

room. It was a wonder she had been able to live in the house where my father had been murdered. I couldn't do it again even if I was threatened to. I looked at the bed, the place that h

footsteps and fell into