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She took her last bite of food, savoring the taste in her mouth. Storm didn’t know when she would have this again and she wanted to engrain the taste in her memory. Maybe once she had enough money to buy more groceries, she could replicate it.
“I’m going to refill this and when I get back, I want to ask you some questions,” he said, taking her cup and getting up from his seat.
Storm watched him as he walked toward the kitchen. What kind of questions did he want to ask? Why did he want to ask questions?
Miles walked back into the room, her sippy cup full of water, and handed it to her.
“I want you to drink all this water as we talk,” he said. “You were such a good girl last time and drank it all. Do you think you can still be a good girl and drink as we talk?”
She nodded her head and brought it to her lips.
“Words, Little one.” He raised his eyebrow.
“Yes, sir,” she whispered.
Storm badly wanted to call him Daddy, but since he wasn’t hers and it was an honorific, she didn’t have permission to use it.
“I would’ve liked Daddy, but I guess that’ll do,” he mumbled, but she heard everything.
Did he really mean that? Why would he say something like that? He knew this was only temporary until she got better. Why would he say that knowing he was going to walk away in a couple of days?
It made no sense, but Storm kept her mouth shut. She didn’t need to make a scene.
“Now, on to the questions,” he said as he sat down. “Why didn’t you text me?”
She blinked several times. Storm thought she had answered this, but maybe she hadn’t and just thought she did. Several times in her life, she thought she’d answered something but it was all in her head.
“I don’t know you that well,” she softly said.
She was already starting to feel drained from his questions, and he had only asked one.
“I told you to text or call me if you needed anything, didn’t I?” He cocked his head to the side.
“I didn’t think you actually meant it,” she replied.
She thought it was just out of courtesy that he’d said that.
“When I say something, I mean it. I don’t just say things to say them, I follow through.”
Storm let out a sigh and took a sip of her water.
“How long has this been going on?”
She wrinkled her nose and gave him a confused look. Didn’t he know when she got sick? He’d seen her the first day she was sick.
“How long has this been going on, as in you living like this, not a lot of food and no medicine of any type in this apartment?”
Her eyes went wide with the questions he’d just asked. How was she going to tell him that? She barely knew him, and he had no right to know the answer to those questions.
“I just ran out of medicine?” she said more as a question.
Closing her eyes, she took several deep breaths. She wanted to sound more confident in what she was saying but now he knew she was lying.
“Little one, I don’t like being lied to,” he said. “Look at me.”
She kept her eyes closed, not wanting to look at him. Once she did, she knew she wasn’t going to be able to keep the truth from him.
“Now,” he commanded.
