ALVAH
"Alvah!" I heard my mother's trembling voice as she called out to me. She staggered forward, her hands shaking as she tried to touch me, but I shrugged her hands off. Tears welled up in my eyes as I stared at both of them. My father looked remorseful as he stared at me, lost for words. I knew he must have resented my mother for bringing up the topic, but that wasn't my damn concern; I was eager to hear the full story.
I couldn't believe my dad had kept that information from me, knowing he was the reason for my curse. His involvement with that woman who had placed a curse on me, and he knew it all along, yet he allowed me to suffer all these years without a second thought.
Was it because of the curse that he had hidden himself from me? Because he had blamed himself and he did not w
