Marlani’s dilema

Marlani’s POV

The thought of grandpa Oscar being here made my heart race with thoughts. He wouldn’t come to Manchester for just any reason, unless it was something very important.

Eggust was the one person whom he cared most about. It wouldn’t be a coincidence that Grandpa Oscar was in Manchester the same time Eggust was in Manchester.

Perhaps he found out about Eggust’s relationship with Juss and was here to reprimand me for not doing my job as a mother.

Oh, Marlani, you had just one job to do and you completely ruined it. Now grandpa will lose faith in you.

There was only one way to find out why he came, and that was asking him, but did I ask him? No.

We’d been walking for a while and he still hadn’t said anything, he probably wanted me to speak first.

His way of asking me to confess, but I wasn’t going to play by that rule. From now on, I would only play by Marlani’s rule.

“Grandpa, why are you here? How did you know I was here?” I finally managed to say, bre