“Unpack and then take a rest. I have to take off now, ” Edmund said. She seized his hand and asked, “Would you like to stay for dinner, maybe?”

“No, I’m good.” said Edmund with a fatigued face, in no mood to dine with her mother.

As a son, he had long drifted apart with her.

After the refusal, he got back into his car and his diver drove him off.

Instead of driving all way back to Vertoak, Edmund told the diver to stopped by a hotel and checked in.

The driver was tired after having been driving for hours,

Edmund was all the more exhausted by the hurried back-and-forth journey, so all he wanted was to find some place to relax.

drove him to get things over with in such a rush was the idea of seeing Chelsea as

a shower at the hotel, rather than hit the sack, he placed a call to Chelsea to tell her he was back and his mother had

called him back in audio, “Sorry, I am not home

he was tired by his voice, and it broke her heart, “You should really go to bed and take a

on to say gently, “I will come see you as soon as I can.”

whacked, he would have

said Chelsea, “go get some sleep. I am kind of busy. I gotta go

hung up, he

really so busy that she

phone that he would be more

she wouldn’t be available that day, and she would find the time to see him

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