Novel & Cerita Tragédie

When I pushed open my bedroom door, Lyra was practically vibrating with happiness on the chair beside my bed. A pizza box sat open on my sheets like some absurd offering to a goddess I no longer felt worthy of worshipping. Grief keeps stretching me thin — sometimes I go numb, sometimes a small thing makes all my feelings flood back at once. Humor and hunger both do that, in different ways.

I stood still waiting for her to continue what she was saying but she had already dozed off. I wiped the tiny tear that had escaped her eyes and then I kissed her forehead lightly and went out of her room and stood behind her door thinking about all she said and all I want to tell her was Senorita I am sorry because I have to kill you to save my only family my Alexis. Her confession made me realize that her liking me would make it difficult even more difficult for me to kill her. ......End of flashback.....

A heavy, loud thud of Richard's falling body follows, leaving echoes round the throne room. ********************