Cold Homecoming

As the car pulled up to the mansion, a knot tightened in my stomach.

There's still time to turn around and run, there's still time to run off.

I don't have to do this.

But yet I couldn't stop.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm the dread swirling inside me.

The mansion looked just as I remember. It does cause I couldn't see Gideon changing anything.

Memories of my father’s harsh control floode