I HEARD HIM SAY " DADDY"
Guddi pencalling him daddy in bedcalling him daddyi call him daddywhen you call him daddy
Tala’s reaction had been almost imperceptible—controlled, neutral, yet laced with a tiny triumph, her victory small but undeniably there.
“No,” she had said smoothly, her tone clipped but calm. “You should not be careless with these things.”
She thought she had sabotaged me.
And now… she would be spectacularly wrong.
Pins were trivial. They were tools, not necessities. Control, I had learned from my experience with Sam, did not always need to be visible. Structure could exist beneath chaos, purpose could hide behind disorder. Most people equated visible order with mastery—but true mastery, the kind that left everyone awed and unsettled, was subtler. It was the ability to manipulate perceptio