Michael let his armor down the moment Carmen told him sweetly, “Here, Daddy, I’ll blow on the mosquito bites for you.” He had planned to sneak out at midnight so that he could secretly return all her newfound pets to their rightful owners, but he was so moved by his daughter’s warm gestures that he found himself relenting instead.

Michael certainly had not expected Carmen to bring a lamb into the courtyard while he was doing the dishes.

“Daddy, can I—”

Michael faltered and screamed inwardly, No, you can’t. You can’t!

He quickly began to dissuade her but alas, his painstaking attempt to do so had convinced Carmen that she wanted two lambs instead.

Once again, Michael was at a loss for words.

By the end of the day, two baby lambs were added to Carmen’s collection of farm animals and Michael let out a dry sob as he heard the lambs bleating in the yard.

But the moment he turned to see his little girl snuggled up against him, he felt all his resentment and frustration dissipate into nothing.

It had been a long day. Flipping over, Michael pulled his sweetheart into his arms and fell asleep shortly after.

At midnight, a few people showed up outside of Michael’s house.

 

“Alright; Dan has already led the guards away. Wait for me here. I’ll be back before you know it!” Sophia instructed quietly as she went over to where Dimon and the others were standing. There was a large bag slung over her shoulder.

Dimon watched as she dashed over to the courtyard, looking clumsy with the heavy bag in tow.

 

Sophia had scoped out the landscape during the day and had taken note of the camera that was positioned by the front entrance. She avoided it and headed over to a hidden part of the courtyard, where she knew the dog hole would be.

When she came upon this dog hole during her stake out earlier that day, Sophia had made sure that she would be able to squeeze through it without being captured by the camera.

Dimon watched as Sophia found the hole and crawled through it. Once she had managed that, she reached out an arm and said, “Dimon, give me the bag.”

Cringing, he handed the bag over to her.

actions had forced Michael into crawling

seeing as Sophia was now doing the exact

the bag

the camera in the kitchen would be switched off during the night, but the same would not apply to the one in the courtyard. She carefully navigated her way around the latter

of using refrigerators, the villagers would store their

quarter of a lotus root, a couple of eggs, tomatoes, and a lonely cob of corn; the melons were gone and Carmen had

that corn… I’ll take

munched on the cob of corn as she placed her torchlight down on the floor next to her. She made sure that it still cast its light into the cellar

of cigarettes and chewing gum. Then, she lowered a sealed pack of ready-made

had picked the fruits after sunset so they would

as Sophia emptied its contents into the cellar.

was so distracted with her own task that she hadn’t even noticed when, at some point, a figure appeared behind her. He stayed hidden in the

as she happily piled junk food

as he watched her stock up the

of pig feed on top of the stockpile. Upon seeing that, Michael was utterly

looked small as she crouched by the cellar. She was a study in enigma, like

there was a deep hunger within him that he could no

in heated passion and he only had one thing

grabbed Sophia

when someone suddenly swept her up and pinned

whispered softly into her ear, his

upon realizing that

gently, reaching

Michael by reaching around his torso and placing her hands on his

hungrily kissed her cheeks and earlobes. Sophia could feel

cooking and the heat of the stove had

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