When Reuben entered the hall, his eyes scanned across the room to catch sight of the figure dressed in dark grey who had haunted him in his nightmares for the longest time.
Finding Lina on the dance floor now with her Uncle Wallace, he made his way to the place where many other couples were also dancing a few feet away from them.
However, his arm was yanked backward before he could even get anywhere close to them.
"Wayne, I swear I will-" Reuben turned his body around to threaten him but was shocked to see that it wasn't Wayne who had stopped him.
Renee Ming stared at her son's furious face and then without saying another word, she dragged him away from there.
Reuben could have flung her hand away but that would be disrespectful and mean. Something that he could never be to the woman who had given birth to him.
So he obediently followed after her to the dark corner of the hall where he met his father already waiting there for them.
