Chapter 398

He came round the back of the house, his hands in his pockets, while his face was set in a solemn smile. I didn’t need to look up to see the pity in his eyes. I felt like a patient with a terminal disease, one tick of the clock away from my grave.“You’ve been almost non-existent for awhile now,” he began.I remained silent, my eyes still fixed on the empty nothingness before me.“I just thought the longer I waited to tell you this… I’m afraid for you, Arielle. I’m bot saying you won’t survive this. It’s just… You deserve to know the truth at least before…”“Before I die?” I’d asked with a bitter smile. And he went silent for moments afterwards.“I was going to say before anything happens..,” Michael’s voice was cut short by mother’s.“What do you want here? Have you come to do more damage than we already have to live with?” she cried with the righteous fury of a mother hen warding off a predator from her chick.What ensued was a long and heated argument between the two, with one party claimi