Now the next person Tiel needed to see was Bianca, and he told himself he'd try to be gentle—at least to the best of his capabilities.
Being near his mother had proven to be a difficult ordeal over the course of his life. Even now, in his early twenties, he couldn't deny how tempting it was to just pull out a gun and put a bullet in her head.
It was surely the first thing he felt when he saw her—Bianca—standing in the middle of her friends. He came in through the side doors of the well-decorated party room.
Anyone who attended wouldn't be able to see it was a last-week panic preparation under Erickson's orders. The same as no one could see Bianca had invited herself to the wedding, when Tiel had specifically asked his father to leave this woman behind. But then again, he probably thought it was a childish request and that he needed to let the past go.
