REALIZATIONS AND UNEXPECTED VISITS Ailene’s POV After lunch with Sebastian, I started thinking of a way to reach out to Maria. I didn’t want to talk to her through a call or even text because she would have her guards up by the mere mention of my name and push me to an unknown place in her mind where nothing matters. I had seen her do that numerous times. I was glad that Sebastian and I had the conversation about Maria, Svetlana, my father and all that was going on. It opened my eyes vividly to the fact that I was acting selfish and throwing tantrums when I should be helping my big brother. I knew that he was going through a lot already, because of what our father did to our mother and our mosther’s dissapearance because of that. He had been searching for our mom but to no avail. It w

