#Chapter 212: A Night Out

Amber’s POV After the phone call, things remained so tense at the house that Alice seemed to notice. She would stop playing with her toys or studying her schoolbooks every so often to find Julian and me in the house and ask us if we were okay. It broke my heart each time she did so. I had wanted to shield her from the drama. Perhaps it had been wrong to bring her with us at all, even though at the time, it had made sense to keep our family together. I didn’t want her to worry, but even with her here, it seemed as if worrying was all we could really do. I could see the toll this was taking on Julian as well. He was short-tempered, seemingly standing on the knife’s edge at all times. Though he didn’t take it out on Alice, me, or any of the staff, I heard him cursing out the inanimate objects that displeased him, like the door that didn’t close all the way or television remote when it didn’t click fast enough for his liking. The biggest problem with all of this was that I was a