Simon returned to the hospital that night but ran back to Alvira’s home every other night at every chance he got hoping to see her all to no avail, other than that, his life slowly went back to normal and the dangers lurking in the dark were no longer there. The following week, however, brought a surprise that made Asher wonder if his guess the previous week was indeed true. Lana came visiting. Simon, who had finished his daily physiotherapy session, taken a bath in the private ward, and changed out of his sweat-soaked hospital gown into a pair of gray suit pants and white dress shirt walked out of the bathroom with the support of the wall and was shocked see Lana standing in the middle of the room staring at him shiny eyes. Lana finally decided to come see for herself after giving it a lot of thought. Even though she had meticulously planned out how to get Simon back, she had to be sure that he was really able to walk and she could only believe it when she saw it with her own eyes

Ben noticed the confusion on his face and clarified, “I never planned to take it back. As for other things…,” Ben sighed and gently placed the file in front of him. “I promised your dead father that I would watch over you as if you were my own, even though he was already dead when we got to the scene. At that time, Sarah wanted to adopt you officially, but I stopped her.” Jared was even more surprised.Ben continued nevertheless, “I thought you would hate us, your father died working for us, and it would be unfair if we allowed you to be bound to our family all your life. So I refused to sign the adoption letters. I thought that one day if you got tired of being a part of our family and wanted to leave, it would be easier for you to do that.”Jared was even more stunned when he heard this. The walker thought he blamed them for his father’s death. He was surprised, but Ben no longer cared about this. “This…,” He tapped the envelope, “Is the transfer of ownership of the TV station I

A knock resounded on the door of Alvira’s home two days later and Emily rushed downstairs to open it thinking it was Alvira whom she had invited back from school but was surprised to see Sarah smiling at her.“Hi, Emily!” Sarah greeted with a bright smile, surprising the woman who was not expecting to see her.“…Madam Sarah,” Emily greeted, “What a pleasant surprise, please come in,” Emily said as she stepped aside for Sarah to come in.Sarah was pleased at her warm welcome, she walked into the house quickly, only then did Emily see Simon seated behind her, not attempting to come in.She gave him a helpless look and sighed, her brows no longer as twisted as they used to be in the past one week. In fact, she was not mad at Simon anymore, in the past one week he had been coming to her home nonstop, asking for her forgiveness, even though she sent him away and never told her daughter, she still observed him closely. The young man never left immediately, he always stayed in his car and w

Alvira’s ears listened for Simon for a few minutes before she realized he left already, seeing he left, she felt dissatisfied and refused to come down no matter how her mother knocked or called for her to come down for lunch.The door to her room only opened when it was past dinner time, she walked down the stairs, and Emily turned to see Alvira who had shut herself indoors all day finally came downstairs and headed for the kitchen.“You’re finally done sulking? I left dinner for you in the warmer.”Alvira shot her an unhappy glance, and opened the refrigerator instead of heading to the warmer, making it obvious that she had no plans of eating the food Emily made.“Did you shut yourself up because you don’t want to speak to me?” She asked but Alvira still ignored her, “You’re mad at me? Funny, I thought you would be mad at Simon for coming here.”Alvira’s movement paused for a second before she pulled out a pack of sandwiches and a bottle of orange juice which she served herself, sat

“You’re late,” Lana told Alvira the moment she dropped her totes bag on the seat beside her and sat down.“Seeing that I'm not the protagonist of the day, I didn’t think you needed me to be here early. After all, didn’t you say this was some kind of reunion between you and Simon?” Alvira said giving off airs and annoying Lana. She glanced around, “From the look of things, Simon didn’t come either,”“I just finished speaking to him, he will be here any moment now.” Lana lied without blinking her eyes. She had chosen a seat by the floor-to-ceiling glass plane and she had positioned herself to face the door so she could see him the moment he came in. The moment she saw him, she was going to start the show.“Oh,” Alvira said, trying to hide the pain in her heart. In fact, she was more listless than she showed. She was heartbroken. She knew she shouldn’t be here, she knew she shouldn’t let Simon hurt her more than he already did but she couldn’t help it.A part of her just couldn’t beli