"Vernon?"
Vernon turned around when he heard that familiar voice.
There, he saw Chloe opening the balcony glass door. Tucked in a loose sweater, she joined Vernon, who was smoking on the balcony.
Vernon was a little dumbfounded because he thought Chloe went to bed right after dinner or had a mother-daughter talk with Mackie downstairs.
But what made him even more dumbfounded was how she looked at him.
Vernon saw no fear in her eyes. She looked at him as if he was a part of the family, something that he never expected to come from her.
After all, he always expected Chloe to see him as an outsider, especially since she said he was just an inferior version of Vincent.
Chloe's eyes quickly darted at the cigarette in his mouth, "I didn't know that you're a smoker…."
