CHAPTER 11 – AT A SNAIL’S PACE
Victor had finished his helping of bacon and eggs when the children came back out. Their faces and clothes didn’t show any trace of their earlier war.
Victor noticed that Liliana had found the badminton set. Each child had a racket in their tiny hands and they chattered like magpies. It was evident that they couldn’t wait to play, and he laughed up his sleeve.
They skipped down off the patio, and at the girl’s prompting, they stopped somewhere in the middle of the yard. Maria measured the distance from them to Victor with a critical eye. She wrinkled her button nose and Victor’s lips twitched.
‘ Probably, her mother had read them the riot act ,’ Victor thought with amusement, very attentive to what the children were doing.
Liliana didn’t seem the kin
