Chapter 76 - 10 minutes– Valen and rain
"My room... in 10 minutes..." he walked out after that.
Jeslyn suddenly felt her throat go dry. Is it really going to happen tonight? She touched her reddened cheeks and couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. From the way her heart was pumping, she was very sure that her face was as red as a tomato right now and Maverick must have seen it too.
"Was that why he changed his mind?" She asked the rhetorical question to herself and then shook her head, "I don’t think so."
Jeslyn glanced at Valen, then shifted her gaze towards the window. The striped black and white curtains were pulled apart. Although she couldn’t hear the pitter-patter of the rain, she could clearly see the lightning and thunder flashing across the sky.
Before Valen went to sleep, they were discussing some random stuff when the rain started to stream down from the sky. At first, Valen wasn’t aware of the rain but when he accidentally saw the lightning flashing across the sky, the child subconsciously gripped Jeslyn’s nightwear tightly.
That was when the observant Jeslyn got the hint that the child had a traumatic experience with rainy days.
Instead of letting the curtains down, Jeslyn didn’t. Her reason was that she wanted the child to stop running away from his fears and embrace them.
"Valen, I can’t close the window, shutting your fears away isn’t the best solution to overcoming them. Take for instance you go out with your friends or you are somewhere in the open and the rain unexpectedly starts to pour, what would you do then?
Showing your weakness at that moment means you have given your enemies the bullet to kill you with."