Chapter 53: Chapter ~ 51 |Arc ~ II • The Wild Wild South|

THE AUTHOR HAS SOMETHING TO SAY: THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO MY LOVELY READER Maha_Rhett. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATRONAGE and VOTES.

FUN FACTS: I WROTE CHAPTER 50 AND 51 WHILE LISTENING TO WILLOW BY TAYLOR SWIFT.

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REUBEN.

The light was blinding, almost dyeing the scenery before me into a pallid plane of silvery white. And amidst that blinding light, I saw her. She wore the same unadorned white dress that she usually liked to be dressed in, her hair in a loose plait, tumbling down her thin shoulders, and those green eyes alit with the same optimistic enthusiasm, a hint of innocent mischief in her insipid beautiful eyes.

"Benny...." She turned her head towards me and took my name, with the most familiar tone ever.

"....Mother...." I heard myself speak, the words falling out of my lips before I could even realize it.

She smiled that bright playful smile of hers, just like I had remembered her in my memories. Like a little girl upto no good.