Chapter Four

But the bad news couldn't end. The minute she stepped inside her flat she knew something was wrong. Mason had his hands on his head and he was sitting on the small couch they had and Lady was paging through her colouring book.

"Mase what's going on?"

Mason's response was to quickly turn around not facing his sister. "Nothing."

"Mason what is wrong?"

Mason looked at Lady. "Lala dear please go get your uncle some crayons so I can colour too huh? "

Lady smiled happy. "Uncle will colour? "

" Yes dear". Mason nodded.

Lady ran to her mother's room to go find the crayons she had kept there.

Now Mason faced his sister. "Sis it happened again."

June slowly walked to the couch. "What happened?"

"He is out of prison. He is trying to fight for Lady's custody."

"Wha-what?!" June's bag fell on the floor. Shock evident on her face. "He's out?! No-no! It's impossible. They said thirty years!"

"Well sis thirty years now seem to be three. He's out. And he's trying to get his daughter he said."

June felt a tear fall from her left cheek. "How do you know this? Who told you?"

Mason pointed at the door. "The fool got inside this flat! He got inside this flat and he was shouting and ranting that he was gonna fight for what was his. It took everything in me. It's all your upbringing that made me stop myself from punching him right on the face."

"He... He came here?" June was shivering with fear now. She ran to clod and lock the door. "How did he even know that we live here. How did he... What is happening here.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out sis. We have to figure this out. If we don't do this quick, he is gonna win. I know it." Mason looked at his sister who was shaking with panic. "Hey hey hey. It's ok. Come sit down. You're not doing anyone any good if you go into panic mode right now."

"What will I do? What am I going to do Mason? I worked so hard to make sure that was far away from us. Now how did he find us? "

"First of all," Mason said. "We're not going to panic. Take a deep breath. Look we're gonna think of a solution and we're gonna work it out. Okay? First let's find out how he found out about us."

"Okay. But how do we do that?"

"If we figure out how he knows, we can probably guess why he's doing all of this. Let's think of what you've been doing recently that might have let him know where we live."

"I do all that I always do. I work. Why would that lead him to find us?!" June had a hand on her chin as she panicked more. " What we need to do right now is just run. Run far away. Where he can't find us. "

"With what money sis?"

June stopped for a minute as she processed what her brother had said. "Oh no you're right. We don't have the money for this. We can't run right now."

Mason sighed trying to think what was going to happen now. "But we do need a safe place for our little Lady."

"We need to tell the authorities about this. We have to. We have to report him. If we don't then he's just gonna keep doing this. He's not gonna stop unless we make him stop."

"Yeah but what if he..." June held back tears. She didn't want to think about the worst. "We can't let her be alone with that man. Not for a second. Not for a second."

"We won't let him anywhere near her. We're gonna fight this. We're gonna fight for our family."

June felt relief for a second.