23. Making Happy Memories

[Erica]

How a person could carry so much grief within his heart but move forward in life was beyond her. She was thankful for having a loving family. She now understood how much she had been living a sheltered and how well-loved she was. The feeling was followed by that of guilt. How can she feel like this when her mate was hurting? had been living under a constant sense of inferiority all his life? She felt like thanking him again for sharing such a special thing with her but refrained herself.

"This is my kind of place", Erica comments, diverting the topic. She will work on Xavier's advise and try to ignore unnecessary negativities in her life as well as Xavier's. She stood up and walked around. The shelves weren't stacked with books. They weren't bound or anything, some looked tattered and yellowed.

"Did you finish reading them?" she asked as she took out one thin book. She flipped open the page carefully. Her brows furrowed when she realised that none of the words was recognizabl