Chapter 17

"A child may not be able to articulate it, but children very quickly understand the dysfunctional unwritten family rules that exist in toxic families."

-Gail Meyers-

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Grigoy woke up that morning with a knock on the door, he did not know what could be such an emergency that they had to disturb him before the sun even rose but of course before opening up his door he always went to check who it was from the tiny hole in his door and found out it was none other than Alexander. Grigory had no idea what could he possibly want with him but he opened up the door and Alexander immediately apologized for the early disturbance.

“What is it that you want from me at this hour?” Initially he thought the reasoning was going to be petty but when he re-examined the look on his face, he figured out that it had to be something serious. The man looked like he had just seen a ghost or something of the sort, it was quite rare for someon