CHAPTER 44

"Babe, I am sorry don't do this to me, at least say something... fine I'll take you, I'll take you home right now if you want."

"Then take me there now." Valentina ordered

"I will, but at least give me a chance to explain why I was a little bit reluctant to take you there, okay."

"I am listening"

"I didn't want to take you there because all the lovely memories you had there, all of that... its all gone and it's environ, everything you've known burnt to ashes. It's more like an abandoned burnt area and I don't want you to see your once cherished and lively home like that, that's why I did what I did... I am sorry."

"And you made such weighty decisions on your own? They are my family, mine. I didn't get to bury them, I didn't get to be there for them, I didn't have the opportunity to protect them. I was held captive by the Hunter's and taken away to be placed in enslavement, all because I was little. The reason I survived the torture at all, was the thought of me coming back home. And