From behind the glass door, I heard Elena’s voice.
“I will return home tomorrow, but before that, I will make sure that human girl is sent away from here.”
I pulled the blanket around my body tighter, trying not to make a sound.
“I already told you, she will move house, but tomorrow because it is already night,” Gabriel said.
“She has poisoned your mind.”
My heart pounded fast. I pressed myself deeper into the dark corner of the balcony.
“Go, Mother, I want to rest peacefully tonight,” Gabriel said.
“Tomorrow she must go.”
I heard her footsteps walk away, then the sound of a door opening and closing again. Then the balcony door opened slowly. Gabriel stood there, his body only in trousers still open at the front.
“You heard that?” he whispered, his voice hoarse.
I nodded, unable
