Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore novel Chapter 193

Chapter 193

Chapter 193

Chapter 193

LOUIS

The dinosaurs needed reorganizing.

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That was what I told myself when I heard Dad’s footsteps on the stairs, because I needed something to be doing when he came in. Something that looked normal. I had learned, over the past few weeks of watching adults be careful around each other, that normal was important. If you looked normal, people believed you were normal, and if people believed you were normal, n’t ask the hard questions that you didn’t have answers for yet.

ed the Stegosaurus next to the Brachiosaurus and moved the Pteranodon to the left side of the shelf, which wasn’t ally where it belonged in the formation but looked busy, which was the point.

knocked and came in.

He did the thing he always did when he was coming to talk about something serious

he sat on the edge of my bed rather than

in the doorway, which meant he was planning to stay for a proper conversation rather than a quick check-in. I had catalogued this difference months ago, when the serious conversations had started being a regular feature of our life.

“Hey, buddy,” he said.

“Hey,” I said, keeping my hands on the dinosaurs.

“Can you come sit with me for a minute?”

I put the Pteranodon down and went to sit beside him on the bed. He smelled like coffee and the specific soap from the bathroom downstairs, which was different from the soap in the upstairs bathroom, which meant he’d washed his hands in the kitchen recently. I noticed things like that. I had always noticed things like that. Mummy – my first mummy, before – used to say I had eyes in the back of my head and also possibly on the sides, which she said as a compliment.

I sat beside Dad and waited.

“I want to talk to you about Bianca,” he said.

I kept my face in the normal position.

“I know she’s been a bit quiet since we got home,” he said. “And I know that’s been hard. I wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

The normal position required some maintenance. I focused on the shelf of dinosaurs across the room and thought about the Pteranodon’s new location and whether I was going to move it back or leave it there.

“I’m okay,” I said.

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