Chapter - 20 What am I missing?

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I stand near the lifeless body as the doctors start checking for what I know is no more in her body. I hear a loud thud and I turn around to see Hiram crying on the floor. Tears don’t seem to stop. I want to believe that the way he is crying there is no way he has killed her, but I know better. I remember the time when Sir Lucas was crying at Miss Gina’s funeral. He was crying so hard, that time I didn’t suspect it was him, I felt like her loss pained him so much. But it was so later in life that I realized, that day Sir Lucas was not crying for Miss Gina, he was crying for himself, the part of his soul that he lost when he murdered Miss Gina. I thought that because he was crying and he was aware that he did a bad thing, that doesn’t make him right but at least redeemable, right? But

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