Gloom

Chapter 232

My eyes traveled to the broken phone placed on the table. My phone. The device that, despite not being old, for the time in which we live where technology advances by leaps and bounds every day, could already be considered old-fashioned.

I stretched out my hand to reach for it and examine it carefully. I pressed the side button to turn on the screen and see, more clearly, the black corner caused by the break that prevented me from seeing the entire image.

Then, unconsciously, an almost imperceptible smile appeared on my face.

“My parents gave me this cell phone,” I explained in a low voice, not being aware if any of them were paying attention to me.

Akhliss's hand caressed my forearm in a gesture that was intended to be comforting, and I couldn't ignore the burning that her touch caused in me. Because the fact that she and anyone else did the same thing was not equal. Because she wasn't human, and her mere touch reminded me that we were different.

I alternated my view between the two.