Chapter 6
I discovered a strange phenomenon.
As long as Lucas and I followed Samuel, we could leave the place we’d always been tethered to. Lucas was getting bored with the cottage after spending the last three years here, so I was happy to take him out to see the world.
He was thrilled and couldn’t stop drinking in the new sights around him, gasping and making sounds of amazement constantly. However, it seemned that we couldn’t stray too far from Samuel.
We ended up following Samuel to his villa.
Lucas‘ jaw dropped when he saw the opulent villa. He’d lived here until he was two, but the years must have whittled away his memories of the place. While Lucas flew around in curious excitement, I tailed Samuel into his study.
I watched as Samuel called the bank and instructed them to block my supplementary credit card. If he’d been more attentive, he would have realized that he hadn’t received any bills on that card for the last three years, and that the money in the card hadn’t been touched.
He thought I’d appear within the week if he disrupted my finances. After all, Lucas‘ uremia meant that he had to go through routine dialysis until he received a kidney transplant. With a twice–weekly dialysis to pay for, I couldn’t go without money.
After Samuel had blocked the card, he pulled up his phone gallery and stared at the picture on his screen, falling into deep thought. I drifted over and hovered behind him, only to see him staring at the picture I’d posted on Instagram.
It
It was a picture of him and Lucas. The resemblance between them was uncanny. They both had the same broad forehead, thick lashes, and large eyes. Even their eyebrows were arched the same way. Such was the magic of genetics.
Samuel was no fool. Naturally, he saw the resemblance, too.
A piercing ringtone shattered the silence in the study. It was a call from the hospital. As it turned out, Francine had fainted.
