Chapter 49: The Package

Alfred’s POV

I couldn't remember the last time I was visited by silence. It was like a wave from the deep sea, wiping the earth clean from whatever it carried. I have to be supportive, that's what I have been telling myself but I stood by not letting her go.

There was no way around it, if I do not let her go, things might get worse. We might never be able to move away from this phase, where she felt stuck. She felt st k in this house and with all that was going on, I too, would find it difficult to move on.

After the kiss, she was all I could think about. Thinking about her gave me only questions, I was finding it difficult to find the answers to. There was only one way to find out but I was not ready to face the underlying truth. I did not want to keep her hostage or anything any longer. I approached the whole thing in the wrong way but there was no going back now.

Before she left, I wanted us to have breakfast together. This was the first time I was doing such a thing but if we we