LIBERTY : PART TWO
The next day the little paradise Layla had escaped to had vanished with the night. Her father, keen on rounding up the procedures necessary for the transfer to occur, had already left for work by the time she woke up and she had to go back home - to a mother she had not notified of her whereabouts for the entire night. And boy she was not looking forward to facing her.
Wrapping the woollen scarf tighter around her neck to make sure it concealed the very visible marks her father had left her with, she opened the front door and walked in, only hoping that her mother had left for work already, since she usually left before nine and it was a little past nine.
Thinking that the coast was clear, she opted for making a dash for her room but her m
