Chapter 16 / Part Three

I follow him with a firm step, he enters the house, which has two floors, the bottom floor is merely a storage room with some gardening stuff. And upstairs is where the kitchen and bedrooms are. He slams the door in my face, but I take a deep breath and open it again.

"I want to leave this house," I demand as he calmly sits down at the kitchen table.

"And where do you suggest I take you Melek? To your grandfather? Who is looking for you to kill you. Or perhaps with your father? A lying man who's done a shitty job protecting you from his own father."

"I don't want you to take me to either of them. I need Esat, my cousin, he's the only one capable of helping me."

"The only one capable? And what do you think I'm doing right now?"

"You've got me locked in a tower, that's what you're doing. You're not protecting me, you never could, because it was you who put me in this situation in the first place. Now, I'm asking you to let me go."

"Melek, this discussion is starting to become repetitive