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Melting the ice

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last update Last Updated: 2025-03-01 16:35:47

As the guests slowly began to leave and it was clear that the party was about to be over, my mother approached me.

Silently pleading with her eyes, she had taken me to the room they were staying in. To be honest, I had also been hoping for her to come and meet me and I was thankful that she did; I was not sure what her reaction would be if I visited her directly in her room.

And also, I was not yet confident enough to face her, nor was I completely ready to face my father.

But she had made every doubt of mine seem futile as she came towards me in a slightly hesitant way but with an affectionate look in her eyes and said, "Lexie, dear, can you please come with me? I think we need to talk, sweetie."

"Of course mother." I nodded to her before I excused myself and started to follow her to her room, and entered behind her.

She made me sit on the chair placed in her room by a small dining table in one corner of the room, and finally asked;

"Lexie, dear! Can I ask you something?"

"Ye-yes
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