~Isabel~
I stood outside William’s study doors waiting a second just to pull myself together, my face felt tight and puffy from crying and my heart was still beating fast from the screaming match with my mom.
I did not have the energy to be polite so I just pushed the door open.
The room was dark, only one desk lamp glowed, lighting up half his face, he sat behind the desk and did not look up right away just kept flipping through a file, his pen scratching fast across the paper.
"You have been scarce and you are minutes late," he said, his voice low and sharp. "I do not remember giving you permission to ignore me just because it is not work hours."
"It is eleven o clock William," I said honestly.
"I came the second Mrs Higgins told me what could possibly be so urgent that it could
