Chapter 42.

The party.

ELSA'S POV.

We had arrived at the party but were still in the car, not ready to step out of the car just yet. But Daniel was so unlike me; he was eager and wouldn't stop questioning me, "Mummy, is it time?"

I had told him that we had to wait for some time before we got out of the car, and his question had been to be questioning me if it was time to step out.

"No, darling, just a little more time," I repeated my response to him.

I could see he was running very close to impatience. There remained only but a slim...