The Emergence of the Legacy Man

Chapter 187

“I have already told you, Sheila, calm down. All I want to do is get to know the family of the woman I've been staying with for some months and the people that have been sharing my money,” Abraham stated, his fingers tapping absentmindedly on the dining table although his gaze was trained on her.

She tensed when he made the latter fill her with dread but she did not have time to dwell on it and she was interrupted by the sound of approaching footsteps. She smiled stiffly as her attention turned to the sound of people exchanging pleasantries at the other side of the closed door, her shoulders hunched up in a tensed form. For a moment she had been hoping that her father would have been able to convince her mother to ditch the dinner, which was the reason she specifically did not invite her father. Her plan had been simple, all she needed to do since she could not change Abraham's mind about the cursed dinner, was to get it done from her parents side. The plan was simple. So simple, all