Maya felt Xavier's body go tense as the car maneuvered inside the highly fenced gates into the driveway, his eyes trained on the pavement.
On a normal occasion, she would have allowed herself to be enthralled by the exquisite exterior design of the huge house, the fancy lights, the waterfall which added to the magic of the Castel like structure which was three times bigger than Xavier's but she couldn't derail from the feeling that whatever had made Xavier avoid this house for years, was huge, so huge that he didn't mind cutting strings from his sister and mother he cared about.
Knowing she was the one that dragged him back to whatever he was running from means she couldn't afford to be gawking at a time like this.
Xavier could remember his mother's frail figure, covered with an
