''...'' Steven observed the sharp intensity in his son's eyes. Eyes that had been once round and innocent-looking just like a child he had been, were now narrowed with a firm resolve.
''Indeed, you have grown.'' Steven slowly lowered gaze in thoughts. The child he and his wife had protected from the schemes of that woman and her family was now grown with his own deep thoughts.
Steven had always known his son to be a bit different from other children and precocious as a child. He never laughed. He never smiled. He never cried when in pain. The only reaction he and his wife had always received was his indifferent stare and perhaps a rare, subtle frown.
