Chapter 10: Call me!
"Girls," I rushed towards them, "How did you know they're the ones? I'm pretty sure you didn't see their pictures," I heard myself say.
Xavier didn't say anything. He just handed the girls over to me and went back to where Lucius was standing. It pissed me off that he was ignoring me. Trying not to think too much of it, I lowered myself in front of them,
"What happened?" I asked.
They exchanged a look before Vina came forward, her lips pressed into a pout.
"I'm sorry, Mom. They had ice cream at the shop across the street and we wanted to try it out,".
"If you wanted ice cream, why didn't you wait until Linda was done with her bath? Do you know how worried we were when we couldn't find either of you?"
"I'm sorry Mom," Maeve said, her eyes were already teary. "I told Vina that we could get into trouble for it,".
"You know what," I straightened. "I was in the middle of a meeting, so we won't discuss this now. When I'm done, we'll talk about your punishments,".
"But we already apologized, Mum," Vina mumbled. "You don't have to punish us,".
"Apology doesn't always fix things, Vina," I tried not to raise my voice. "It's high time you learn to do as I always tell you,".
Vina folded her hands, giving me a cross look. "You said this was going to be a fun vacation, but all you've done is hole us up in that room. I'm tired and I want to go home,".