THE ONLY HEIR

chapter 114

I pushed the chair aside and I walked out of the door. Deep within me I knew that I wanted to hear something from him, a reaction not a well-thought-upon response.

As I closed the door to his study, I slowed down my hand, maybe he could whisper goodbye to me.

But he didn't do that. I walked through the hall way still trying to listen if he would shout a farewell message to me.

But I heard nothing but the sound of my shoe clicking on the hard floor...

I walked out to find Jack standing in front of the car.

“Hey Jack." I said approaching him. Jack was tall, about six foot five. I wondered how he grew so tall. He'd been my family driver since I was age eleven and he never seem to age.

He'd always drive me to school and then he'd always pick me up from school. Today he was driving me off to the university and he wasn't coming to take me back home.

Was it true what my dad had said. Was it true that I didn't know how to do anything on my own.

I was definitely going