Meera~

"I think you should adopt Elsie".

I stopped whatever I was doing and spun on my heel to look at the man for proposing something that is impossible.

"Are you out of your mind Abram?" my voice trembled. I don't like jokes around such things. And how can he even say that when he knows what it feels like? When he shares that pain with me.

"She thinks of you as her mother Meera. I have seen it..." I couldn't help but glare at him. Elsie just thinks of me as someone who lives in her house.

"You are a mother figure for her. She has seen you more...