The Urban Legend Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Chapter 73

“I need to go!” He suddenly said, groaning lowly.

“What?” Emily questioned him in total shock and with surprise. She hadn't expected him to welcome her with such a statement.

“Emily, I need to go and I need to go now,” he said as a matter of urgency.

“What do you mean? Where are you going to?” She questioned him.

“Emily, you won't understand but didn't you get my letter? Just check my room and you will see it by the bedside,” he said to her as he tried to move away from her grip.

“Where are you going to? Are you trying to avoid me or what? I am not going to answer to that or do whatever is written in there,” she stubbornly said to him as if trying to prove a point.

As large as the house was, he could only see it from the eye of a needle, Leonard's internal struggle manifested in the subtle contortions of his face, a silent battle against an unseen force that tugged at the core of his being, within him.

Emily, who had anticipated joy and relief in Leonard's return, found herself confro