Chapter Twenty-Four

I lay awake in bed for an hour, the information I had just learnt from Elliot not allowing me to sleep. How do I approach this with Axel? He must suspect that something happened to his father, he wouldn’t have just fell over and died a mile away from this place. But with the way in which he reacted when I even brought his father into the conversation, tells me he hasn’t quite dealt with the loss of him. Until I know more about the situation and hopefully, find Axel but also Hannah, the answers they have been asking for years, I should keep this to myself.

But not only thoughts surrounding Axel’s father were swirling around my head, but now thoughts of my own real father were. Elliot didn’t get the chance to elaborate on what he told me, only spoke about my father briefly before I woke up. That has given me much room to speculate but also, come up with many theories.

Could that have been why my father left my mother? Perhaps, my father was only seeing my mother for some fun and when