chapter 2: guardian

"sorry I'm late"

why is he sorry? what is he late for? most importantly who is he?

she was very confused. there were many questions in Emery's mind. but as for the identification she guessed he's a new agent sent for her.

Emery looked at him for few seconds and noticed he's eyes showed sadness. but there was something else in his eyes . a familiarity she guessed but didn't paid mind to it.

"can we come in?" ,he spoke again .

wait.. we? now that she looked behind him there were two more men standing.

then she realized that she was holding them outside for too long.

she step aside from the door .

"please come in"

the man slightly nodded and walked inside and took sit on the couch in the living room. the other two stand behind him. they didn't sit.

she went to sit opposite to them. Berry came to sit near her feet.

she looked at the man and noticed that he was looking around the house.

he finally locked eyes with her and softly asked, "are you living alone?"

why is he asking that? shouldn't he already know?

she was thinking that but didn't said anything and just nodded to his question.

"Emery do you know what am I here for?"

again another confusing question.

she thought. she looked down and answered slowly

"to get me to foster care.."

"that's not what I'm here for, Emery. "

this made her looked at him again in confusion.

this man is full of confusions.

"aren't you from the agency?"

" no I'm not. we obviously never met before but we are actually related. "

"oh. then who are you?"

" My name is Ezra McCall."

McCall?

a distance relative or friend she guessed.

"so you are here to show your condolences I guess. thank you for coming."

"part of it ofcourse but that's not all I'm here for, Emery. "

she was going to ask him then what but then the bell rang again. she excused herself and went to answer the door. this time the one came is the lady from yesterday.

as soon as the lady saw Emery she embarrassed her with a big smile.

Emery got confused why is she so happy. but it felt good to be hugged.

she let Emery go and held her shoulders and said,

"congrats Emery. we finally found someone willing to be your guardian."

this made Emery so shocked that she couldn't even form words.

"w..what??!!... w..who...!!??"

"I'll tell you let's go inside."

"oh.. right. I'm sorry.."

"it's alright.. so we received a call this morning and..." she paused when she saw there were people setting on the couch.

"oh you have guest. and who might this be?"

"uhmm...this is..."

Emery got cut off

" I am Ezra McCall. I'm guessing you are from the agency. I was the one who talked to you this morning."

she saw that he was now standing beside her and extended his hand.

the lady took the hand and Shaked and said," oh hello . I'm Elenore. my god I didn't expect you to be so young. nice to meet you"

"same here" he said with a small smile.

"you are here earlier than I expected."

he released a sigh and said, "no.. I'm already two days late." now he's looking at Emery with a sad face.

"I can understand. "

"wait why did you call miss Elenore this morning, Mr. McCall? " Emery finally asked .

" you still didn't talk to her Mr. McCall"

"I just got here a few minutes ago. we were just going to talk about it"

then the lady turn to Emery and said,

"Emery, Mr. McCall is here to be your guardian."

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