Chapter 22
I didn’t sleep in his room, but when I woke up at dawn, I was with him in bed, and he was already hugging me. It's likely that while I was asleep, he entered the room where I was sleeping and lay down next to me.
I was confused about the last thing he said when we talked. What was he guilty about? I asked him, but he didn’t answer anymore. I glanced at his face while that question filled my mind. But in the end, I just went back to sleep since he also looked sound asleep.
“Xena,” someone called me at the same time there was a knock on the door.
I sat up on the bed when I heard the knock. Lennox was no longer beside me, and the sun was already high. I opened the door for Mama. She looked at me and told me to go down so we could all eat together.
I didn’t bathe yet; I just wa
