Chapter 141 Melissa: Joy

• Melissa
• I moved around, preparing Jack’s favourite dinner. The little fellow was exhausted and somewhere, there was a buried fear in him. He was too young to dwell on what had just happened, why he had been snatched and all that. But he kept close to me, sitting at the table, sketching in a large colouring book that Tristan had bought for him that morning. Every now and then, his eyes would flicker across to me.
• Leo was on the floor, playing with a set of miniature toy cars that he would end up dismantling soon, I thought with a sigh. Sally had her bridge club meeting today so she had said she would be home tomorrow afternoon. She was going to stay in town tonight.