“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.

him to get things over with in such a

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

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

Chelsea could tell that he was tired by his voice, and it broke her heart,

to say gently, “I will come see you as soon as I can.” He had missed her so much over the Last few days that it’s driving him crazy to be away

he hadn’t been so unbelievably whacked, he would have flown off to

get some sleep. I am kind of busy. I

been hung up,

so busy that she

plane, he had told her on the phone that he would be more than happy to see her at the airport in

have told him that she was sorry, saying she wouldn’t be available that day,

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