Chapter Twenty-Seven: Adara

We left Seaview in silence, Dane and myself.

Having been all but coerced into letting him walk me home, I had nothing to say to this man who would not take no for an answer.

I badly wanted to be alone. I was exhausted from the day’s ordeal. After all, I’d almost had see my sister die. Indeed, I had, as far as I’d known at the time, watched her dying before my very eyes.

I wanted to be by myself to process the day’s event.

And I knew what lay ahead of me:

Father’s interrogation about Fawna, with me having to answer question after question after question for an hour, if not longer.

And worse, Mother’s hysterics at every answer, crying out in shrill tones, perhaps even fainting or pretending to, as a way of demonstrating her love for her family as well as her tenderheartedness and her “nerves.”

I couldn’t bear any of this without some “alone time” to prepare myself.

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