Divided Loyalties

“There’s nothing for you to be sorry about but…I am quite…surprised. When you left dinner so suddenly the other day, I thought that something must have happened and that something was wrong. Then you didn’t return home that night. I was worried but Gideon assured me that you were fine and that you were staying over with a friend…” my mother said as her brows furrowed.

She seemed very confused, and