THE ONLY HEIR

chapter 58

It's been two weeks since Mandeline left my house.

Thirteen days since Rosetta died.

Many people have died, many people I knew; Mark, Alice, Rosetta, even the ones I didn't know Geoffrey that died the day I met him, that man in the bar that died the day I met him and the other one in the parking lot.

But, people die... people die everyday, somewhere right now, someone was dying.

But the thought didn't make anything better.

Although it was logical, I wasn't the ultimate cause of some one's death, they killed themselves indirectly.

It's been ten days since my parents called me and since then they haven't reached out to me again.

I went to the coffee shop to get my coffee because I was too tired to make one.

I felt all the momentum had been sucked away from me and now I was left dry, I didn't feel like myself.

I wondered what it was, that I would do so that I would get my peace back.

I've tried looking for Mandeline everywhere, I've employed people and still she