Chapter thirty two

On the day of George Lawrence’s burial, Adrian’s grandfather, so many people attended and mourned him, but the one who felt the greatest pain was Adrian.

Apart from the fact that he was about to be willed one of the greatest possessions in the world, he lost the only family he had. The family who proved to him that blood was thicker than water, and love reigned very much between them.

Adrian was quiet while everyone wailed, but a lot was going through his mind. He only knelt and stared at his grandfather’s smiling photo.

“Why did you leave, so suddenly? Why didn’t you spend more time with me? Were you that in a hurry to go to a world where peace reigns, and leave me here in a world, filled with evil?” Adrian thought to himself as tears welled up in his eyes, but unwilling to fall.

Days before the burial, he didn’t come out of the house, and only kept to himself. Neither Sophie nor Lucas could get to him, and day by day, they hoped he was fine, as they communicated through the maid in