The journey to recovery

Chapter 55

Chapter  Fifty five

Stage four: Curiosity and Guilt

Denmark

Ferdinand's P.O.V

Meow

Meow

Narrow pupils gazed at me who pushed  myself up from the plaid couch. My arms buckled under my weight and once I laid on the couch.

The pumpkin feline studied me again when a dark skinned dressed in gruff jeans and aged  shirt ran over to me.

"Ian you're awake" she chirped flashing a smile with pearly white teeth a gap between them.

Why is that smile so familiar?

And did she just call me Ian ?

" How do you know that name ?" I asked her who got up on her feet then shut the curtains.

My suspicious gaze still followed her every move. Her slim fingers hooked under the raven bangs that peeled off her head.

Instead of a raven fish plait she had a mushroom of brown ringlets.

With the smile she reminded me who she was.

" Verena"

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She held my shoulders at armslength with her head tilted to the side. Her face was frozen  still  I  thought till a smile cracked on her face then slammed me against her.

" It's really you,you're alive" she whispered.

" Yeah it's me" I replied before she stepped away from me. Eyes narrowed into slits glistening due to tears.

" Verena"

" Why did you lie to us? Why were you hiding this whole time? And why am I one of the last to find out about this"

" You're not one of the last to find out"

" And now you're lying if I'm not the last to find out then explain to me how I  had to find out from mom that you're alive?"

" Mom found out from dad I had been sending him emails to visit him then I could ask him questions about Ryder's death  and the reason for hiding was to protect myself from Tuhari" I replied.

Her arms released themselves from the knot and dropped to her side.

" What happened? " she asked before I sat back on the couch.

" Tuhari was responsible for my disappearance  he was going to kill me..hm but I ran away and I've been running ever since"

The door interrupted the silence and allowed a woman who wore a stained dress that aged her twice than the first time I saw her back at the castle.

" Demi" uttered  mom while my eyebrows knit together then cast a glare at my sister who held a hand at the back of her neck then backed out of the living room.

Mom set the grocery bag at the coffee table slow in her approach towards me.

" I wanted to see back at the house but your father thought it wise I give you space" she announced.

" He told you didn't he ?"

" Demi, it's for your own good if you're admitted you can be healed and safe from all this from this war we're in " she said. My hands slithered out of her grip.

" Give me time to think about it I'm going to go out for a walk"

" Demi"

" Please mom" My bones cried at the ascend but the tension  here was too thick for me to stay.