Chapter 121
“Well don’t you think it is mean to givea white crayon to color on a white piece of paper Jessy?” Smith
asked.
“No.” Jessy replied.
I smiled lightly, while stirring the pot of food on the stove and listening to the conversation coming from the
living area.
“I'm not coloring with you then.” Smith said.
“No, no. You have to color Smith.” Jessy said.
“Then givea better crayon. Givethe green one.”
“No.”
“The purple one then.” Smith insisted.
“I wan the purple one too.”
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“Jessy you're not being fair right now. If you wantto color with you then you have to givean actual color,
you can’t givea white crayon and askto color with you that’s being selfish. Smith said and | could tell
that he was getting annoyed already from the tone of his voice.
Iwas just about to go and intervene when the two cwhirling into the kitchen. Jessy with her crayon box in
her hands and Smith with the singular white one and the drawing book in his.
“Mommy, Smith no want to color with me.” Jessy said with a pout on her lips and tears brimming in her
eyes.
“Freya, she gavea white crayon. How I'm | supposed to be able to color with that? Givea better crayon
and I'll color with you.” Smith said turning his attention to Jessy standing by his side.
“No!”
“Baby | think you should give Smith a better crayon so he can color with you.” | urged her and she looked into
her crayon box and pulled out an orange color before offering it to me.
“Notbabe, Smith.”
Finally, with a sigh Jessy offered the orange crayon to Smith and they both moved out of the kitchen.
The last three days have been miserable for myself and Jessy. After | had left the mansion with Jessy in my arms
wrapped up in a blanket, regret had filled every bone in my body at my decision.
But | couldn't take it back, | knew that | needed to leave, | couldn't bare to be in Greyson’s presence for a while.
The hurt and anger withinwould not allow me. | needed space away from him to be able to think properly
about all of it.
I loved Greyson, more than | was happy to admit, but what he did toruinedat spoint. | had to bear
the consequences of his actions for the last four years. And Goddess knew how difficult the four years have been
for myself and Jessy
| had no direction whatsoever when | left the mansion with Jessy in my arms, all that | knew and wanted was to
be out of there as soon as possible.
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Maybe my decision had been fueled by anger and hurt but three days down the line and | didn’t exactly regret it.
Fortunately for myself and Jessy, | had met Smith on the way. The Beta had been confused to seewalking
down the road with a bundled up Jessy on one arm and a small bag of belongings on another, looking lost and
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmmiserable with tears streaming down my face and without even waiting for an explanation he had brought us
both to his home.
Clara had chere to attend to Jessy on Smith's call after she woke up a few hours later and although the
older woman had worked silently, | could read all the reservations she had about my decisions from her eyes and
her words tojust before she left, had been the main fuel of my misery for the last three days.
“If you leave, all three of you are never going to survive it. You're already an essential part of each other's life.
That is not something you can just up and leave. You no longer have only yourself to think about now Freya, you
have to think of Jessy too and how this will affect her in the long run.
After she had left, | had just broken down in more tears and no matter how much Smith had tried to comfort me,
it had been pretty useless. | had opened up to him about the entire situation after then, beginning from that
night, four years ago,
until when the healer had revealed it all.
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And Smith had only heldclose in his arms and listened quietly to me. | didn’t remember much after that
point, only that | had woken up in bed with Jessy beside me.
And since that night, there had been nothing from Smith. He never mentioned it the next morning, neither did he
ask more questions about it. He had only been the perfect host to us both
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