Chapter 15

Golden sunlight poured through the window at my bedside while I secretly skipped through the pages of Kerrick's photo album.

Something had to be in there, something I missed but I wasn't sure what I was looking for, to begin with.

In the majority of the photos, he was standing with his father. In another few, a person I suspected to be his mother, besides that nothing crossed the norm.

I scratched my head and looked at another picture of him and his mother together.

They were exact contrasts.

Her face was bright and she was always smiling though it looked a bit forced.

Kerrick on the other hand was withdrawn and disinterested.

"These pictures are old," I whispered under my breath and turned another page. All of them seemed to be taken before Kerrick and his family lived in his father's 'big house'.

I closed the album and hid it back where I found it because I felt guilty for going through his personal things.

I slowly made my way back downstairs where Kerrick was working since before