Oscar pulled up outside my grandmother’s townhouse. The car bobbed up and down slightly as it drove slowly over the cobbled street. Looking up at the house that was now my home, it still felt ‘alien’ to me, but I hoped in time I would become used to my new status and life.
I was on my own in the back of the car. When Sebastian had heard the news of his mother, he had ordered Oscar to bring me home and he took off in the other car at high speed back to Elstree. From all that I had heard, his mother was a cruel, spiteful woman out for whatever she could get. She had left Sebastian to fend for himself, her own son, because her husband never left her anything in his will. What mother would do such a thing? Especially one that had caused her husband’s health to dwindle in the first instance. I
