In My Daughter's Eyes

How He Knows

Kind of a look deeper into last chapter. Like a teaser chapter that's teasing literally nothing! Haha! ❤

It was the day Artem was set to pick up Sharna when he woke up to Peta calling him. "Who's hurt? Who's face do I need to mess up? Who do I need to kill?" He asked in a rushed panic. "Oh my gosh, is my wife okay?!"

Peta nervously chuckled at his question. "That's kind of why I'm calling you."

"I'm supposed to pick her up today. Why, what's wrong?" He sat straight up.

"I take it you saw the headlines?" Peta asked.

"Yeah." He rolled his eyes.

"So, kind of about that...um, well, okay, that was totally stressing her out, and I could see that she was forcing a brave face even though she came close to crying about a million times in the past seven days. Between the press, being away from you guys, and why I called her, her stress levels are--"

"Woah. Wait." Artem cut her off. "Why did you call her exactly?"

"Long story short, Maks and I started fighting and he almost left, and I had nobody else to call."

"Need me to beat him too?"

"No." She chuckled. "Back to what I was saying. She's more stressed than she was before she had Ember, and even Val came over and she wouldn't - Or couldn't I should say - hold a stable conversation because she was just so freaking distracted. So please please please watch out for her. Heads up that her smiles are all a well thought out facade. Please keep my sister safe, Ar."

"You got it, P." He smiled and the call was disconnected.