Chapter 68.

Care for the younger ones.

THEOPHILE'S POV.

I was awake but didn't make any attempt to move out of my bed. I lay with my hands folded under my head and my eyes fixed on the dark ceiling of my room.

I was not thinking of anything in particular. Though my mind was wavering between what my old man could want from me and what Elsey might be up to.

A knock sounded on my door, and I took my eyes to the door with not even a little sigh.

"Darrel, are you in?" I heard Leon's voice ask, and the knock resounded the second time.

"What?"

"Come...