Chapter 58 Anxiety

• By the time the taxi came to a halt in front of her house, little Leo had fallen asleep again. Mara paid the cabman and asked him to keep the change. She was not in the mood for waiting for change or having any conversation whatsoever, no matter how short. She let herself into the house and made sure to lock the front door properly. Then she unstrapped Leo and laid him down on the sofa in the living room. She was about to hurry off to the kitchen with the things she had bought when she remembered that little Leo had already had lunch. Christ, so many things were going on in her head at once. She dropped everything she had bought right there in the living room and grabbed her son and made straight for her room.
• Shutting the door behind her, she laid little Leo on her bed and sat down beside him. She wished she had someone to talk to – someone she could tell all she was currently feeling, but there was no one. It was unfortunate that she had virtually no friends. If Leo was here, she wouldn't need any friends. He was more than enough for her. But it would be many hours before she would be able to have him back. Until then, she would just talk to her inner self.
• Sighing deeply, she reached for her purse and extracted her father's card from it. Wait... should she still keep thinking of him as her father since he had admitted that he was not her biological father? Well, to be sure, she had forgotten to ask him if he knew if her father was still alive, but even if he was, would it change anything? He was the only father she had ever known and that would never change.