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AR'S

lip the eggs in the pan

ight and I'm pretty sure I ha

ng the eggs on a plate. I proceed to make p

e orange juice but then I disc

m sure my fruit has been blended enough, I turn off the switch and, strain i

oth hands supporting his chin as he watched his favor

come and hav

a small table in front of him sinc

gnores me completely as he

ost g

him with our neighbor and then proceed to take my frui

ray to get more customers just so I

and have yo

a and plate of toast

juice I had pour

es me ye

I reach for the remot

his head in my direction probably to see who switc

before him and he pouts knowing he isn't getti

ood,

mum

y, giving me th

man. Mummy is

his mouth as he takes a sip before bi

g at the corners of my lips. S

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so much,

I hand over Sean's bag con

p thanking me. I love having Sean ar

ho has already made himself comfor

wing he's i

in her early fifties, with

oved into this neighborhood three years ago when I could no longer take the r

had taken it upon her to look after Sean a

on while I was away? My son needed my attention t

d clothe him if I

ck before y

sure

time you wan

d look u

dramatically only for a second before

laugh exiting the

ve you a better life. A

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its in the huge basket I'd be taking out to

y from the basket as

just some default message

y heart drops instantly as dre

t me

ough to send my entire day spir

p the

f a b

lls me when he needs m

s he eve

rich businessmen of their money, he

eir money is a good thing but

according to his orders, by the way, I

ested before doesn't mean I'm saf

wants you arrested, he'd do

in such a web. If this happens then

ing. He can go

s me for another

what he's capable of. I know he won't hesitate

I have no choice but to succumb to his tw

ve always been trapped eve

*

e my way into the cr

the CCTV camera he's installed in

come

soon I enter the office too luxurious to

hind me, bending my head low as I f

ke he w

it when you look

sted way of thinking

faring my b

swirling around in his seat with that nasty signature smirk of

ow you're doing, you do not answ

. Words" h

ring we

ear him noddin

o the chase then. I cal

eason he called me here

gs. Important things mostly and m

inis

commit the grave mistake of snapping

uh

his eyes

raid this place in a few hours or less. Someone snitched on us. We need to take t

place? How did he even manage to make me a passport an

y? We? As in you an

e had sprung off his seat and crashed into me, pinning me against the wall with a dagg

First, you dare look me in the eye a

dangerously

told me otherwise One move, one wrong move, and

est spies but I'm not

.. I'm tru

aware of the dagger p

and get

ur

quietly I almo

long? I have already made arrangements

y back to

in some orphanage. I'm his mother and until I'm alive, my son

... There was a long stretch of silenc

he boss even think of wanting to send my three-year-old son to an

oes wher

u see

question snaps me

im holding up a bea

int m

ry lovely a

nically, ope

a scream escapes from my throat at

lled with bloo

. In the pool of

n fi

uman f

ng the urge to gag and vomit at

retty little boy he is, or the next fingers to occ