Chapter 54
(Andy) “A-Alma?” I stared at the woman, not sure I had heard her right. “Excuse me? My name is Andy. But how do you know my mother’s name??” Calli stood nearby with Yann glued to her side, both looking as confused as I was. “Your mother?” the woman whispered, barely looking at me now. She straightened suddenly, her face expressionless and she wiped her face dry in one motion. It was as if our encounter had breached a very high and thick wall within her heart but almost immediately, it was back up again. “So that twit Jerry and my Alma really did have a child in the end,” she grimaced. Her voice sounded like dry sandpaper, crackly and low. “What did you say??” I stared straight into her steely eyes but she just laughed. “Brave. Just like her.” She turned to the men with a toothy gr
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