Chapter 78- True Faces
After their conversation stifled with silence and worry, Isiah and Maybell retired from his office and quickly returned to Isiah’s room. The early hours of pale sunlight creeping over the curtain rods and dancing over the walls made Maybells belly flutter with anxious awareness of the passage of time.
Walking beside Isiah Maybell unconsciously bit into her bottom lip and twisted her hands at her chest. She wrung them twice before she felt a swift movement to her left and she let out a small surprised shout as Isiah’s arms wrapped and gripped over her shoulder and under her thigs so he could lift her up into his embrace.
“Whoa…what are you doing Isiah?” A smile danced on her lips as she allowed him to carry her the last few steps into the bedroom. Before the man r
