They stared at each other for a moment.

Then Alexis smiled and started the car.

After rolling up the window, she drove off.

“Alexis!” Leonel called out to her.

But she didn’t stop.

Leonel knew she wouldn’t come to any harm, so what he should do was to go back upstairs and think about how to deal with the days ahead.

But he didn’t seem to want to move at all.

He just stood there, staring in the direction her car had just gone.

But all of a sudden, he remembered the maple tree in the backyard.

Ignoring the pain in his leg, he slowly walked towards the tree.

red leaves hanging

summer, the

his facial muscles

that the maple tree had changed color, would he

way back, Alexis took some medicine to stop the

wound appeared daunting, yet it

the time she reached home,

The villa was silent.

sat on the sofa,

attention, however, seemed

through the doorway, Waylen looked

“What happened, Alexis?”

voice, Alexis paused,

eyes, she remained the little girl who would snuggle on his lap, listening intently to the fairy tales he read

Dad,” Alexis replied

lie to me, girl! It’s written all over

blinked, giving Waylen a

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