HOPE

Chapter 27   Hope     Lila Lucien and I spoke for a while but as the conversation went on, I was eager for it to end. I wanted to go back to Olivia so we could talk about what would happen next, if we needed to pay money or anything.   “Are you listening?” he asked, his voice breaking through my thoughts and bringing me back to the present.   Startled, I answered him, “Yes, yes. I am fine. I was just trying to multi task” it wasn’t the truth but at least it wasn’t a lie either. I was indeed trying to multi task.   “It’s so strange to me that even after five years I know you so well. I know you were lying Lils, something else is wrong and its not just work. I could help if you tell me” his voice was soft, he was trying to learn the truth.   I knew that at that moment I should have told him, they were his kids as well after all but I couldn’t. His rejection so many years ago had scarred me, I couldn’t trust him with this. “I don’t think you know me so well or all those year